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Doreen Ruto Jemutai
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Doreen Ruto
Jemutai was the founder and executive director of the Daima Initiatives for
Peace and Development (DiPaD). She worked previously with UNICEF on peace
campaigns with youth in Kenya prior to the 2013 elections and with USAID's Kenya Transition Initiatives aimed
at stabilizing communities and institutions following the
post-election violence in 2008. Ruto also worked with PACT World as a
consultant on the PEACE II program and contributed to the research and publication
Imagine Karamoja! – An Appreciative Inquiry into Resources for Peace. Ruto
earned a bachelor’s of education degree from Kenyatta University in 1991 and
worked as a secondary school teacher until 1998. She earned a master’s degree
in human resource development from the University of Manchester (UK) in 2003,
and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study conflict transformation at Eastern
Mennonite University, graduating in 2006. Doreen passed away on January 21,
2016.
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