Dr. Grace Atim also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Development Administration (PGDA) from University of Ibadan. She has obtained a Diploma in Justice & Peacebuilding from Eastern Mennonite University Harrisonburg, Virginia USA, Certificate in Strategic Negotiation & Conflict Resolution from West End College London, Certificate in Sustainable Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards and Enhancement, from Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi-Nigeria, and Certificate from SGD Academy on Social Protection.
Her recent works include; The Challenges of Gender Stereotypes among African Women. Published by AT-MISHAD Publishers in 2016, Children and Armed Conflict in Africa: Nigeria in Perspective (2019). She has published and consulted on issues of Gender, Child Protection, Security, Human Rights, Strategic Communication, Development and Peacebuilding for national and international Journals.
She is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) Women Peace and Security Journal.
She has consulted for Mobilisation for Development (M4D), DFID Funded Project, Nigeria Army College of Logistics (on Gender and Conflict Management), EU/ECOWAS, UNDP/PRESCOM Cross-Border Security Management Project, Equal Access International Nigeria, UNICEF Nigeria Office, and PartnersWestAfrica. She presently serves as Senior Social Safeguards Specialist on the Nigeria Federal Government/ World Bank COVID-19 Recovery Action Stimulus (NG-CARES) Supported programme.
She has combined her Research and Administrative career with Civil Society engagements for more than eighteen years with a focus on Child Protection, Women’s Rights Advocacy, Gender Justice, Communication, Peacebuilding and Security. Grace’s over 18 years’ experience as a Researcher, University Administrator, Trainer, Facilitator, Consultant and peace- builder has provided her opportunity of working with women, children, youth, civil society, Traditional Rulers, Academia, Legislators and other Security actors.
She is a recipient of numerous awards. In 1985, she received overall best graduating student Award from Government Girls Secondary School, Wannune. In 2016, she received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, Eastern Mennonite University Harrisonburg Virginia, USA. Grace is also a Baobab for Women’s Rights WORDSMITH Award Recipient 2021 and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) #107 Women who choose to challenge Award 2021.
She was a Nigerian delegate to the 62nd United Nations Special session on the Commission of the Status of Women in New York 2018, (made a special presentation on the Situation of Women in Conflict & Displacement in Nigeria).
She is a member of the National Peace Academy (MPA), Society of Gender International Professionals (SGP), Institute for Development Administrators of Nigeria (IDAN) and Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC). She is a member of the Nigeria Feminist Womanifesto Group.
Grace Atim worked a Senior Assistant Registrar and the first female Public Relations Officer of the Benue State University and also co-ordinate Child Rights Protection Initiative (CRPI), a Child Rights non-governmental organization in Nigeria. She has authored numerous publications on Gender, Human Rights, Communication, Development, Child Protection, Peace and Security. She is a member of the National Committee against Torture (NCAT); she currently sits on the Advisory Boards of CRIN (Child Rights Information Network) and Gender & Environmental Risk Reduction Initiative (GERI). She is a Resource Person at the Centre for Peace and Development Studies, Benue State, and the EU/ECOWAS, UNDP/ Presidential Committee on Small Arms and Light Weapons (PRESCOM) Cross-Border Security Management Project.
Grace has eclectic interests and hobbies, which include interior decoration/design, collecting photo frames and photography as pastime and enjoys reading author biographies, novels and travelling. She is widely travelled and married to Prof. John Tyodzua Atim with three children, (Williams -Terchir, Michelle- Wandoo and Zainab -Sharon Aver).
