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Lucía Centellas
Lucía Centellas 
Executive Director,
Esfuerzos de Mujeres Bolivianas
Twitter: @luciacen 
LinkedIn 
​Email:  centellas [dot] lucia [at] Bweforts [dot] org​ / ​centellas [dot] lucia [at] gmail [dot] com 


small arms and light weapons (SALW) I gender I other instruments

Lucía Centellas is a multilateral diplomacy and arms control governance activist, founder, emerging researcher and executive dedicated to disarmament and non-proliferation. She is the founder and CEO of Bolivian Women's Efforts. She was a member of the lobbying team of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) to advance gender aspects during the negotiations of the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and the Open-ended Working Group on conventional ammunition at the United Nations. She is a member of the board of Observatorio San Calixto; member of the World BEYOND War; member of the coalition honored with the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and worked to make sure Bolivia was among the first 50 countries to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW); member of the UNIDAS Women‘s Network; member of the diplomatic-political initiative of integration: Grupo Boliva- Chile; and co-founder of NiUnaMenos Bolivia.

Centellas was honored with the inclusion in the publication Forces of Change IV (2020) and Forces of Change III (2017) by the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC).

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