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10 September 2026
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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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10 September 2026
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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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“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)

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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 02 March 2017
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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 01 March 2017