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ICAN’s Mission Five Steps for Sustainable Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict ICAN Partner AWAPSA: A Catalyst for Kenya’s First SGBV Court The War Against Ourselves: Afghan Women Peacebuilders’ Response to the Mental Health Crisis in Afghanistan Protecting Women Peacebuilders: The Front Lines of Sustainable Peace

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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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6 October 2025
Open Statement to the United Nations Security Council on behalf of Women Peacebuilders Marking 25 Years of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

On October 6, 2025, the U.N. Security Council holds its annual open debate on Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security. Today, we are not issuing a new statement. Instead, we are honoring our community of women peacebuilders—who appeared before the Security Council throughout these 25 years, speaking for the millions they represent—by echoing their messages.

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How do we make peace sustainable?

When civil society, especially women, are included meaningfully in peace negotiations and peacebuilding, peace is more sustainable.

Recognizing the gendered impact of conflict, it is common sense that issues addressed in peace and security processes—from ceasefires to humanitarian aid, governance, and transitional justice—should be gender responsive.

ICAN offers strategic advice, accompaniment, and practical guidance on how to ensure inclusive and gender responsive peace processes. This includes animations, discussion guides, and trainings in multiple languages and for different audiences.

ICAN pushes boundaries to enable women peacebuilders’ expertise, trust, and deep knowledge of their communities to reach the echelons of power.

–  Helena Gronberg Program Director, ICAN

Guidance on Inclusion and Gender Responsiveness

Read our participation framework on the inclusion and recognition of women in peacemaking efforts.

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The Better Peace Tool is currently available in English, Arabic, French, Russian, Tamil, Sinhala, Urdu, Spanish, Portuguese, Myanmar, Thai, and Farsi.

“If war is the industry of men, let peace be the industry of women.” 

— Amal Basha, Chair of the Sisters’ Arab Forum for Human Rights & Member of the Yemen National Dialogue Conference

To access these animations and more in additional languages, please visit our Resource Library.

Gender Responsive Ceasefires

Gendered Community Policing

Gendered Transitional Justice

Gendered Devolution

Gendered Peace Negotiations



Proactive Steps for Inclusive Peace

“ICAN is one of the few organizations from which I have learned action-oriented steps on Women, Peace, and Security, rather than theory and policies.”

– Hannah Skeoch, Canadian Diplomat

Gender-Responsive and Inclusive Constitution-Drafting

10 Steps to Ensure a Gender-Responsive and Inclusive Constitution-Drafting Process
Gender Responsive Transitional Justice Processes

10 Steps to Ensure Gender Responsive Transitional Justice Processes
Inclusion in Ceasefire Agreements

10 Steps to Ensure Gender Responsive Processes and Ceasefire Agreements
Gender Responsive and Inclusive Ceasefires – English

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“If you wait for a peace agreement, recruitment and violence will increase and more people will die. We need to start dialogues and mediation at the local level before a peace agreement.”

– Abir Haj Ibrahim, Co-Founder, Mobaderoon, Syria