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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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March 25, 2020 by Lauren Mellows Women, Peace and Security in the Time of Corona An op-ed by Sanam Naraghi Anderlini about the gendered impact of COVID-19, and the relevance of the WPS agenda.
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 25 March 2020
September 8, 2019 by Lauren Mellows US WPS Agenda: Not Just a Foreign Policy Stacey Schamber discusses the potential of US Women, Peace and Security Act to transform the US's role in the world and stresses the need to widen the lens of...
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 08 September 2019
October 9, 2018 by Lauren Mellows Peace Heroes: Why Nancy Yammout Met with Extremists in Lebanese Prisons Nancy Yammout speaks to ICAN about Rescue Me’s efforts to rehabilitate and reintegrate prisoners found guilty of terrorism —and how, over nine years, they’ve engaged with some 680 prisoners,...
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 09 October 2018
August 3, 2018 by Lauren Mellows Resuming Military Aid To Egypt: In US National Interest? By Rana Allam The Trump admin is releasing $195 million in military aid to Egypt that was previously withheld over human rights concerns. Have these concerns been alleviated over the...
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 03 August 2018
May 5, 2018 by Lauren Mellows To Sustain Peace: Heed the Warnings & Prevent the Next War By Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini As the May 12 deadline looms for the US’s endorsement of the JCPOA, world leaders who claimed to support Mr.Guterres’ sustaining peace agenda, have a clear moral...
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 05 May 2018
April 25, 2018 by Lauren Mellows Women Peace Activists Offering Governments a Helping Hand From our WASL partners, the success stories of two women, one from Uganda and one from Syria, prove that with persistence and resilience, obstacles can be removed.
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 25 April 2018