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A Woman in Post-Conflict Reconstruction – from Kosovo to Nepal, 1999-2008
The UK’s Lesley Abdela has become one of the world’s most experienced Gender post-deadly-conflict reconstruction consultants following
the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2006 she was voted into the New Statesman’s Top 50 Heroes Of Our Time list (www.newstatesman.com/200605220016). Fifty-six reels of her boots-on-the-ground experiences in Kosovo in 1999/2000 to Nepal in 2007/2008 via Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan and Aceh have just been recorded by Imperial War Museum archivist Lyn Smith*.
Lesley Abdela is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Society for Arts, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists.
Her coordinates are tel. +44 1435 882 655, mobile +44 (0)7967 650 155. lesley.abdela@shevolution.com
All members of the public can listen free of charge to the Lesley Abdela recordings (or any of the IWM’s other recordings) at the Museum Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm. The reference number for the Lesley Abdela archive is 31557, which also appears on the IWM online database.
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