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29 January 2026
ICAN’s Holistic Security Menu: A New Way to Support Women Peacebuilders

Women peacebuilders often operate in some of the world’s most dangerous contexts—yet the security support available to them is frequently fragmented, repetitive, and short-term. Recognizing the need for a fundamentally different approach, ICAN conducted a holistic security assessment of its Afghan partners, including members of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL).  The result is the Holistic Security Menu: a co-designed, partner-driven model that provides practical and sustainable security support—on women peacebuilders’ […]

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12 May 2025
The Odd Couple: Women Peacebuilders and Security Actors Bridging Positions, Building Trust

The WPS agenda has proven a vital entry point for women peacebuilders to engage with the security sector and build trust within affected communities. These efforts—often invisible—are contributing to the reform of the sector, reshaping local security environments and mitigating violence.

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21 April 2025
The War Against Ourselves: Afghan Women Peacebuilders’ Response to the Mental Health Crisis in Afghanistan

This case study describes the drivers of the mental health crisis in Afghanistan, its gendered and cultural dimensions, and the strategies used by Afghan women-led peacebuilding organizations to provide solutions. The authors conducted interviews with representatives of Afghan women-led peacebuilding organizations and thematic experts, which were complemented by a desk review of project documentation and […]

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News & Media
6 October 2025
Open Statement to the United Nations Security Council on behalf of Women Peacebuilders Marking 25 Years of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

On October 6, 2025, the U.N. Security Council holds its annual open debate on Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security. Today, we are not issuing a new statement. Instead, we are honoring our community of women peacebuilders—who appeared before the Security Council throughout these 25 years, speaking for the millions they represent—by echoing their messages.

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Building Clocks, Not Just Telling Time

ICAN supports our partners’ sustainability and capacity by providing ongoing technical and strategic guidance, accompaniment (advisory support), trainings, and peer-to-peer learning tailored to their distinct needs.

Unlike most other funders, ICAN offers its WASL network partners a holistic ‘package’ of support.

– Peer Organization via Merits Partnership Independent Evaluation (December 2022)
Thematic Guidance 

Practical guidance and innovative multi-media tools on how to ensure gendered and inclusive peacemaking, for example deradicalization from extremism, ceasefire negotiations, community policing, constitution drafting, and transitional justice. 

Accompaniment

Strategic and technical advisory services to women peacebuilders to engage effectively in real-time peace processes. 
Organizational Capacity Building

Training on technical subjects including proposal and report writing, monitoring and evaluation, budgeting, communications, digital security, self-care, and other areas identified by partners.
Peer-to-Peer Learning

Group trainings and peer-to-peer exchanges to facilitate the sharing of strategies and experiences and to deepen solidarities across countries between grassroots, national civil society actors, and regional and international activists/organizations.