IN THE YEAR 2005 TAMANG LADY WAS NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Stella Tamang
A Nepalese Buddhist who has received trauma training at Eastern
Mennonite University was among 1,000 women nominated to win as a group
the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.
Stella Tamang of Nepal completed a five-day workshop on “trauma awareness and resilience” at Eastern Mennonite University on Oct. 7, the day that the Nobel Peace Prize was announced. She and 10 others among the “1000 PeaceWomen” have links to EMU.
Tamang is a powerful advocate for women’s rights and minority groups as a result of facing discrimination in Nepal on two fronts: she is from the indigenous Lama community and a Buddhist in the world’s only Hindu kingdom. The name of her organization, Milijuli Nepal, means “together.” Her message is that diverse groups in society can work together for their respective rights, with mutual toleration, without violence.
Tamang was among the women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a Switzerland-based committee.
The committee spent almost three years seeking the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for representative women peacebuilders from more than 150 countries. That effort ended when the peace prize was awarded to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Egyptian director general, Mohamed ElBaradei.
Stella Tamang of Nepal completed a five-day workshop on “trauma awareness and resilience” at Eastern Mennonite University on Oct. 7, the day that the Nobel Peace Prize was announced. She and 10 others among the “1000 PeaceWomen” have links to EMU.
Tamang is a powerful advocate for women’s rights and minority groups as a result of facing discrimination in Nepal on two fronts: she is from the indigenous Lama community and a Buddhist in the world’s only Hindu kingdom. The name of her organization, Milijuli Nepal, means “together.” Her message is that diverse groups in society can work together for their respective rights, with mutual toleration, without violence.
Tamang was among the women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a Switzerland-based committee.
The committee spent almost three years seeking the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for representative women peacebuilders from more than 150 countries. That effort ended when the peace prize was awarded to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Egyptian director general, Mohamed ElBaradei.
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