Angelina Jolie continues to make women everywhere proud. According to Vogue, Jolie and former UK foreign secretary William Hague recently opened up Europe's first academic center to combat sexual violence faced by women in warzones. It is located in the London School of Economics (LSE), and has been named the "Center of Women, Peace, and Security."

People Magazine reports that the new center will aim to educate students about the participation of women in "conflict-related processes" and "on enhancing accountability and ending impunity for rape and sexual violence in war."

The creation of the center is especially important to Jolie. As a special envoy for the UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), Jolie has just returned from northern Iraq, where she was able to witness the poor living conditions and the brutality administered to refugees by the Islamic State (ISIS) firsthand. According to The Guardian, Jolie thinks that students engaging with the new academic center have the ability to help change the world.

She stated, "If you were to ask me who I think this center is for, I picture someone who is not in this room today. I think of a girl I met in Iraq three weeks ago. She is 13 years old, but instead of going to school, she sits on the floor in a makeshift tent." Jolie then revealed that the girl had been captured by ISIS as a sex slave, and was repeatedly raped.

She continued, "Now she may never be able to complete her education, or get married or have a family, because in her society victims of rape are shunned, and considered shameful. To my mind, what we have begun today at LSE is for that Iraqi girl and others like her...

I am excited at the thought of all the students in years to come who will study in this new Center. 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."