Wahid Foundation Peace Village Program Evaluation
The ADI lunchtime seminars are an opportunity for a relaxed, informal, monthly discussion of current research projects and recent publications over a 60-minute lunch session. An associated ADI researcher speaks for 20-30 minutes followed by 20-30 minutes of Q&A discussion.
In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Leanne Kelly discusses her research on the Wahid Foundation Peace Village Program Evaluation.
ABOUT
The Peace Village program in Java seeks to counter violent extremism through a women-led community-based model that empowers women as agents of change. The program promotes peace and inclusivity through focusing activities on tolerance building, conflict resolution, gender equity, women’s empowerment, entrepreneurship, and participatory local governance. This strategy seeks to increase economic wellbeing and opportunity, equity, social cohesion, mutual understanding, and individual agency, as well as raising awareness of violent extremism and gender-based violence (GBV) to strengthen community resilience.
SPEAKER
Leanne Kelly is a pracademic in the fields of humanitarianism, development, and evaluation studies within NGOs. Her work focuses on crises including conflict, violence, extremism, disasters, trauma, and protection. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a 3.5-year ARC Linkage project led by A/Prof Anthony Ware and Prof Greg Barton exploring appropriate humanitarian-development NGO responses to preventing/countering violent extremism in Asia and Africa. She is also the National Evaluation Advisor at the Australian Red Cross.