# Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (Deeqa Ibraahim Cabdi)

> Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (1964-2011): Wajir peacebuilder, Right Livelihood Award winner 2007.

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## Who was she?

Dekha Ibrahim Abdi was a Kenyan peace activist of Somali ethnicity, born in Wajir on 17 November 1964 and based in Mombasa ([Wikipedia, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekha_Ibrahim_Abdi)). She worked as a consultant to governments and civil society groups (same source). See [Somalis in Kenya](/en/diaspora/kenya/).

## Peace work

She was a founding member of the Wajir Peace and Development Committee, the Coalition for Peace in Africa, ACTION (Action for Conflict Transformation) and the Peace and Regeneration Oasis ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekha_Ibrahim_Abdi)). She was a trustee of NOMADIC, a pastoralist organisation in Wajir (same source).

She trained people in peacebuilding and pastoralist development in many countries, including Somalia, Ethiopia, South Africa, Cambodia, Jordan and the United Kingdom (same source). She also worked with the group Responding to Conflict (same source).

## Awards

In 2007 she received the Right Livelihood Award for showing how religious and other differences can be reconciled after violent conflict ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekha_Ibrahim_Abdi); [Right Livelihood Award](https://web.archive.org/web/20071010212237/http://www.rightlivelihood.org/abdi.html)). She also won the Gernika Peace and Reconciliation Prize in 2008 and the Hessian Peace Prize in 2009 (same source).

## Death

On 7 July 2011 her car crashed into a truck on the way to a peace conference in Garissa ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekha_Ibrahim_Abdi)). Her husband and their driver died at the scene, and she died of her injuries in Nairobi on 14 July 2011, aged 46 (same source).

## In short

A Wajir-born peacebuilder whose community model won international awards before her death in 2011.

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