Anu Pillay's passion and motivation for her work is spurred by her personal experience of surviving violence, raising four children as a single parent, engaging in the struggle to end apartheid and educating herself. She began her professional life in 1981 when she started the first non-racial pre-school in the Eastern Cape. Her work over the past 25 years has focused on women, gender and development although life has taken her on many different career paths. She has experienced working in the private sector, the public sector and the development sector. She has recently expanded her work to include conflict management and transformation again focusing on women and gender. Anu has a well developed profile in the development sector of South Africa having worked for the last five years for an international non-governmental organisation, Ashoka Innovators for the Public. She is also well known for her work with violence against women and is the co-founder and board member of Masimanyane Women's Support Centre and Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy to End Violence Against Women (VAW). She has published many papers and articles on peace and VAW and recently contributed to and co-edited a book on conflict : 'The Aftermath: Women in Post-Conflict Transformation which focuses on women and conflict in Africa.
Anu has completed a number of management and administrative courses over the years including financial management. She has studied community psychology, communication and gender up to Masters level and holds a Masters Degree in Conflict Management and Transformation. She has participated in various training courses including local governance capacity building in the United States, participation and gender in South Wales; interfaith relations and conflict resolution in India and Romania. She is currently registered with Wits University Politics Dept for a PhD in Conflict Transformation and Gender.
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