2016 Outstanding Youth Peaceworker

Asma Khalifa is a Libyan activist and researcher. She has been working in civil society on human rights, women’s rights and youth empowerment since 2011.
Since then Asma became a research student in MA – Peace and Conflict studies-, and has started to work on peacebuilding and conflict transformation.

Asma is a co-founder at Tamazight Women Movement, a think/do tank that is working on gender equality and research on the indigenous women of Libya and North Africa.

Asma is a capacity builder for Libyan activists in peace building and non-violence.