Liz Bernstein is the founding director of the Nobel Women’s Initiative. She has led the organization in building strong relationships with Global South grassroots women’s organizations to grow the global women’s peace movement. From 1998-2004 Liz served as co-ordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and prior to that, lived in Thailand and Cambodia for 10 years where she worked with local peace and justice advocacy organizations and co-founded the Coalition for Peace and Reconciliation. Liz also co-founded Ecology Ottawa. The Nobel Women’s Initiative uses the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize and six courageous women peace laureates to magnify the power and visibility of women’s movements working in countries around the world for peace, justice and equality. The NWI works to strengthen and expand feminist efforts to promote nonviolent solutions to war, and opposes violence and militarism.