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ICAN is hiring a Staff Accountant to provide financial and administrative support to ICAN’s Finance Director and broader team.

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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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“ICAN is one of the most important organizations in bringing forward the perspectives of women peacebuilders into this space…ICAN is at the forefront of building and leveraging listening to women peacebuilders into advocacy in policy conversations.” 

— Peer Organization via Merits Partnership, Independent Evaluation (December 2022)

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
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
February 22, 2018 by Lauren Mellows The Maldives: Hell Breaking Loose in Paradise The Maldives Constitutional Crisis: A Power Struggle Between the Supreme Court and the Government. What's been going on? What can the world do?
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 22 February 2018