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1 September 2026
Security Reimagined: ICAN’s 2026 Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Forum

ICAN's WPS Forum 2026: Security Reimagined

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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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April 26, 2022 by Lauren Mellows Race, Power and Peacebuilding Race, Power and Peacebuilding aims to explore and to understand how racism manifests itself in the peacebuilding sector. This report has been produced by Peace Direct in collaboration with...
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March 25, 2022 by Lauren Mellows Gender and Extremisms: ICAN Delivers Training in Cameroon ICAN facilitated a training on gender and violent extremism organized by the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Unit, from 3-5 March in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The training served as...
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March 8, 2022 by Lauren Mellows She Builds Peace on International Women’s Day 2022 International Women's Day 2022 marks the two-year anniversary of the She Builds Peace campaign to stand with women peacebuilders. As locally-rooted, trusted leaders in their communities, they are often...
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January 31, 2022 by Lauren Mellows The Coming of Age of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: 21 in 2021 Nearly every month through 2021, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini MBE, founder of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and director of LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, hosted...
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January 24, 2022 by Lauren Mellows She Builds Peace: New Campaign Tools and Materials ICAN and the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) would like to share the She Builds Peace campaign kit, updated for 2022, which describes the background and overview of...
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November 29, 2021 by Lauren Mellows Giving Tuesday: Please Support our Afghanistan Emergency Relief Fund Several months have passed since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Though global media attention is dying down, the crisis continues and the risk faced by our partners increases with...
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