Quhramaana Kakar has been leading and directing the organization she founded called ‘Women for Peace and Participation’ since 2013. Prior to this, she was Gender Advisor to the Afghanistan Peace & Reintegration Program (APRP) and Joint Secretariat of the High Peace Council. She has also held consultancy roles with EUPol and Atal, and was a Programme Officer at CAFOD. She won the N-Peace Role Model for Peace Award in 2012. She holds an MPhil in Sociology from the University of Cambridge and a Masters in Public policy from the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy in Germany.

Participant in: August 2017 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes