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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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January 30, 2017 by Lauren Mellows Trump’s slap in the face of Lady Liberty By Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini Will women be turned away from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in March, in New York? The world's global institutions must...
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September 2, 2016 by Lauren Mellows Stealth Sectarianism By Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini Certainly, the threat of sectarianism is growing. But the Shia-Sunni division is not the most urgent problem.
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