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Taxonomy Archives: Celebrating Peacemakers
![headshot of Human rights activist Nadia Murad Basee Taha](https://giwps.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/nadia-murad1-150x100-c-default.jpg)
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Nadia Murad
In 2014, the Islamic State attacked Nadia Murad’s village in Iraq’s Sinjar region. That day, she witnessed the murders of…
![head shot of Wai Wai Nu](https://giwps.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Wai_Wai_Nu_portrait_web-150x100-c-default.jpg)
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Wai Wai Nu
Wai Wai Nu was among thousands of political prisoners detained by Myanmar’s former military regime. Following the sentencing of her…
![Headshot of Lyse Doucet](https://giwps.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/lyse-doucet_29i3772_crop-590cc77e33e4d-150x100-c-default.jpg)
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Lyse Doucet
Lyse Doucet is known for her coverage of Afghanistan, where she first traveled on Christmas Eve 1988. In 2002, she…