When a radicalized
Muslim went on a 2012
killing rampage in his
hometown of Toulouse,
the first victim was also
Muslim: a paratrooper
named Imad Ibn Ziaten,
targeted for his service
to France. In her grief,
his mother, Latifa Ibn
Ziaten, began a cam-
paign for la jeunesse
et la paix, youth and
peace, and named it
for her son. A Moroccan
immigrant, Ibn Ziaten—
here reading a book
aloud in her grandson’s
bedroom— visits schools
and prisons, pleading
for mutual understand-
ing. “Look into people’s
eyes and smile,” she
says. “And they will
come to you.”FRANCE
PEACE
ADVOCATE
KENYA
ANIMAL
TRACKER
Previous photo: A
mother of three at 23,
Mpayon Loboitong’o
herds her family’s goats
on her own; after her
husband left to find
work in Nairobi, she
was told he’d been
killed there. Her other
full-time job: charting
animal movements
for Save the Elephants.
For a monthly salary
she and eight other
women traverse the
bush, unarmed, amid
elephants, lions, and
African buffalo. “I do
this work so my kids
don’t go to bed hun-
gry,” she says.SHAPING THE FUTURE 53