Angelina Jolie has upped her humanitarian game. On Tuesday, the 39-year-old announced that she would be creating the Centre on Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics.
While attending the event on Tuesday with William Hague, Britain's First Secretary of State and leader of the House of Commons, the actress, who is a special envoy of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, announced the launch of the center. The creation of the facility aims to educate students on, "enhancing accountability and ending impunity for rape and sexual violence in war," according to a statement from the London School of Economics.
"I am excited at the thought of all the students in years to come who will study in this new Centre," Jolie also 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."
The new center helps propel forward the goals of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI), co-founded in 2012 by Brad Pitt's wife and Hague. The center, which is backed by leading liberals Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, is slated to begin offering post-graduate degrees next year.
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