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

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April 17, 2017 by Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini The Bomb to End All Bombings – If Only By Sanam Naraghi Anderlini Does a 21,600 pound bomb solve the Daesh problem?
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March 7, 2017 by Lauren Mellows To veil or not to veil—That is a complex question By Sussan Tahmasebi Discussing the debate around the Swedish delegation's women donning headscarves during their visit to Iran where compulsory veiling is a politically charged issue
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 07 March 2017
March 2, 2017 by Lauren Mellows In the Face of Extremism: the SuperHeroines Behind ICAN On a daily basis, women come face to face with violence and extremism, and bear the efforts to change an ever-conflicted world. Who are these women, and what do...
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March 1, 2017 by Lauren Mellows Women’s Efforts for Peace in a Divided World Aya Nader writes from ICAN’s Fifth Annual Forum highlighting the work of extraordinary women fighting for peace, pluralism and preventing violent extremism
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February 18, 2017 by Lauren Mellows Reasons to care about, abhor the executive order on immigration By Melinda Holmes Last week, the country faced tremendous fallout from the Executive Order on Immigration, and its hasty implementation. Yet, in our rural northern towns the chaos and bustle...
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February 17, 2017 by Lauren Mellows Extremism’s Earliest Critics By Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini Women Are Often the First to Raise the Alarm
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