Angelina Jolie Opens First Women Academic Centre In London School Of Economics

Angelina Jolie opens an academic centre studying women in conflict in the UK. The women centre is the first in the country.

Washington Times reported Angelina Jolie has established the first academic centre in Britan focusing on women, peace and security issues. The "Unbroken" director said she hopes this centre at the London School of Economics would be able to ensure women's protection against crimes in future. She hopes the centre would be able to boost global campaign for women's rights because she believes there is no stable future for a world in which crimes committed against women have no corresponding punishments.

The university itself said the centre will focus on women's roles in conflict and on ending atrocities against rape and sexual violence during war periods. This cause is really close to the actor-director's heart, as back in 2012, she, a UN special envoy, co-founded a campaign to prevent sexual violence with the previous British Foreign Secretary William Hague.

She's also concerned about intrastate wars and ISIS atrocities because in the end, they end up violating women as well. Mail Online UK reports the day before she went to London to help open the Center for Peace and Security at the London School of Economics, she also met with 24 religious leaders at the Lancaster House in London. She addressed the leaders seriously, stating the world needs a "powerful moral force." She claimed conflicts these days take place within states already and not between states. One of the significant casualties on these types of wars is the women, who suffer rape as a favoured military tactic.

For the "Maleficent" actress, such violence "respects and spares no one," notwithstanding race and religion. Therefore, she wants religious leaders to highlight how urgent these injustice—"the mass rape of women and children and men."

'The tragedy is that this issue hardly features in discussions about our strategy towards defeating ISIL, ending conflict in Syria, and stabilising Iraq. Yet it is vital to our success; and so I'm asking your help in highlighting around the world the injustice and the urgency, the urgency of the situation,” she stated.

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