Alice Wairimu Nderitu is Global President of the Aegis Trust’s Isōko Centre for Humanity, https://aegistrust.online/isoko-center-for-humanity/. She previously served as United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide where she prioritized translating genocide prevention from international norm to practical community-level implementation. During her tenure, she developed groundbreaking policy frameworks including the first UN document to recognize the IHRI definition through “Combating Holocaust and Genocide Denial,” and the Nyamata Plan of Action for preventing hate speech and incitement to violence. She prioritised development of educational curricula on genocide prevention, piloting programmes across Asia-Pacific, South-East Asia, and Africa, and established the first UN online course on countering hate speech.

 

Ms. Nderitu previously headed the Human Rights Education and Capacity-Building Programme of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, was a Commonwealth Exchange Fellow on education at the South African Human Rights Commission, served as Director of Education for Social Justice at the non-profit, Fahamu, and as Commissioner of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) in Kenya. At NCIC, she co-founded the Uwiano Platform for Peace in 2010, a conflict-prevention agency that pioneered linking early warning to early response through mobile technology in Kenya.

 

A respected mediator of armed conflict, and member of the African Union’s FEMWISE, she is one of only a few women mediators’ globally who are signatories to peace agreements. She has served as an Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities instructor https://www.auschwitzinstitute.org/people/alice-nderitu-5, Summer Course faculty member at SIT Graduate Institute, Vermont, Brattleboro, USA, and experiential lecturer of the Socio-Economic Rights course at Pretoria University’s Centre for Human Rights, South Africa. She has also served as facilitator of the Senior Mission Leaders Course at the International Peace Support Training Center, Kenya and the Rwanda Military Academy, Rwanda.

 

She was named Woman Peace Maker of the Year by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego (2012), was Aspen Leadership scholar (2015), inaugural Global Pluralism Awardee for commitment to conflict prevention and an innovative approach to mediation by the Global Centre for Pluralism – awarded by His Highness the Aga Khan and the Government of Canada (2017),  Jack P. Blaney Awardee for using dialogue to support conflict resolution by the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University, Canada (2018) and Peace and Cohesion Champion (2019) and Sinai Awardee (2025). She is widely published.