WANGARI MAATHAI INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

WANGARI MAATHAI INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Prof. Kiama Gitahi, BVM, MSc. Ph. D Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies

PROF. WANGARI MUTA MAATHAI, • Former Head of Department of Veterinary Anatomy, University of Nairobi, • Founder, Distinguished Chair, WMI • Noble Peace Prize Laureate, 2004

PROF. WANGARI MUTA MAATHAI, • Former Head of Department of Veterinary Anatomy, University of Nairobi, • Founder, Distinguished Chair, WMI • Noble Peace Prize Laureate, 2004

THE IDEA: 18 th July 2008

Development of the Concept 20 th to 23 rd August 2008

THE NAME WANGARI MAATHAI EMPOWEREMENT CENTRE: Leadership Training for Sustainable Development WANGARI MAATHAI INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AND LEADERSHIP (WAMICEL) WANGARI MAATHAI INSTITUTE (WMI) WANGARI MAATHAI INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (WMI)

Strategic plan

THE VISION Excellence in experiential learning, transformational community outreach and research for a sustainable environment and cultures of peace “I believe so essential haveenvironmental it’s to education schools includes in that experiential learning, children touch soilandseetheworms, tenda garden harvest eatwhat so can the or and they grow” From Replenishing the Earth, by Wangari Maathai;

Mission To cultivate positive ethics, values and practices towards the environment by training stewards who foster peace, holistic sustainable development and link theory with practice

OBJECTIVES Ø Objective 1: To Make WMI a center for holistic environmental practices Ø Objective 2: To improve values, ethics and attitudes towards sustainable environmental management Ø Objective 3: To contribute to improved understanding of environmental policy for decision making Ø Objective 4: To enhance environmental management practices Ø Objective 5: Develop a training program on cultures of peace

Objective 1: Make WMI a center for holistic environmental practices

Objective 2: To improve values, ethics and attitudes towards sustainable environmental management

Objective 3: To contribute to improved understanding of environmental policy for decision making

Objective 4: To enhance environmental management practices

Objective 5: Develop a training program on cultures of peace

HOW DOES THE INSTITUTE ACHIEVE THESE?

Requires collaboration: INDUSTRY GOVERNMENT SOCIETY WMI INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS INDUSTRY

Resources LABORATORY GRADUATES LIBRARY PUBLICATIONS & INNOVATIONS RESEARCH TEACHING AUDITORIUM & AMPHITHEATRE LECTURE THEATOR PUBLIC LECTURES & PUBLIC PERFOMANCES EXTENSION & OUTREACH INSTITUTE ARCHIVE EXHIBITION PERMANENT AND OUTSIDE TEMPORARY DEMINSTRATIONS LEARNING EXHIBITION PLATFORMS

DEVELOPMENT OF THE WMI CAMPUS • A: Prof. Maathai and Dr. Kiama presented a commitment to action at the Clinton Global Initiative gathering in New York on September 23, 2010: The certificate of commitment to action is signed by President Clinton, Prof Wangari Maathai and the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nairobi. The clip of this event is available at: http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=r 7 K 5 d. Wo. HWtw

EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY SESSION OF THE AFRICAN UNION, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA • During their last AU summit at the auspices of the New African Union Headquaters Complex in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia all the head’s of states from Africa decided to recognize the life and work of Wangari Muta Maathai, • The Summit also encouraged the AU Commission, to take all the necessary measures to mobilize resources in support of “Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI)” as an African Centre of Excellence, to encourage research on environmental governance and its linkages with peace, human rights and democracy in Africa.

Stabilizing Kenya by Solving Forest Related Conflicts (STAKE) • Ph. D and MSc research program focusing on the Mau Complex. The overall goal of STAKE is to contribute towards stability in Kenya with a specific study on the ongoing attempt to democratize the governance of the forest resources. • Four (4) Ph. D and 15 MSc will be trained under this project • A detailed description of the program is posted on the WMI homepage (http: //wmi. uonbi. ac. ke)

Experiential Learning program: Interdisciplinary land use and natural resource management (SLUSE) • WMI is collaborated with The Danish Consortium for Environment and Development (DUCED) and the Green Belt Movement (GBM) to mount the Sustainable Land Use and Natural Resource Management (SLUSE) Field-Based Course. The course is founded on the acknowledged fact that land other natural resource management issues cannot be adequately handled by any one discipline

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