Prof. Ní Aoláin Nominated for Improving World Order Award

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has been nominated for the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for her latest book, On the Frontlines: Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process, co-authored with Dina Francesca Haynes and Naomi Cahn (Oxford, 2011). The distinguished award honoring powerful ideas that could lead to a more just world order was first given in 1988. On the Frontlines explores whether recent attention paid in the peace-making process to issues of sexual violence and discrimination has improved the lives of women in post-conflict states who have suffered the consequences of violence and gender oppression. Award will be announced at the end of 2012.