Sharon Bhagwan Rolls is a second-generation Fiji Island feminist working on the intersection of gender, media, communications, and peace, including supporting women-led media and communications to amplify peace-building efforts. She advocates for a peace-development-humanitarian nexus approach and is engaged in regional intergovernmental and multilateral processes on gender, peace, and security.
We should not normalize the fact that women and girls are living in conflict. With the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women underway, it is time to elevate women’s peace-building role.