Our work with the women we explain to them how they can go through us to express their needs at the level of the chiefdom to denounce violence against women.
There has also been a two-way flow of influences in art, religion, technology. Of course it has not always been a peaceful relationship; there have also been invasions and wars between southern states and chiefdoms in Sri Lanka.
Between the fourth and the fifth cataracts of the Nile lay the state of El-Kurru. This chiefdom was at an advantage as it had access to two important trade routes, and it controlled the gold mines.