Angelina Jolie is doing everything she can to help struggling women.
The 39-year-old actress and England's First Secretary of State William Hague announced plans to open the Centre on Women, Peace and Security - an "academic center focused on combating and preventing the violence faced by women in war zones," according to People Magazine.
The Centre of Women, Peace and Security will be based at the London School of Economics in England. According to the press release, the new facility will "focus on the participation of women in conflict-related processes and on enhancing accountability and ending impunity for rape and sexual violence in war."
"I am excited at the thought of all the students in years to come who will study in this new Centre," Jolie said in a statement. "There is no stable future for a world in which crimes committed against women go unpunished. We need the next generation of educated youth with inquisitive minds and fresh energy, who are willing not only to sit in the classroom but to go out into the field and the courtrooms and to make a decisive difference."
People reported that the new center will support the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) - a program found in 2012 by both Hague Jolie and t he London School of Economics and the U.K. government and supported by former U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.
"I'm delighted that as we take forward the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative we'll be able to work with the UK's first academic center on Women, Peace and Security at the LSE, providing the ideas and rigorous academic understanding needed to expand equal rights, equal freedom, and equal opportunity for women everywhere," Hague said.
Jolie, a special envoy for the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, added, "We need the next generation of educated youth with inquisitive minds and fresh energy, who are willing not only to sit in the classroom but to go out into the field and the courtrooms and to make a decisive difference."
