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“We Canceled Silence”: How Local Peace Committees Rebuild Trust in Syria

Across Syria, communities are finding ways to reconnect after years of war through dialogue, storytelling, art, and collective action. Mobaderoon’s Local Peace Committees demonstrate why lasting peace begins within communities themselves.

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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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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 March 2026
Staff Accountant (Remote, US Based)

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

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Country - Yemen

Core Areas of Work:

Juridical/Legal Institutions, Peacemaking, Security Sector Reform

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About the Organization

Abductees’ Mothers Association (AMA) is a civil society organization based in Yemen. AMA was originally formed by the mothers, wives, and female relatives of abductees and forcibly disappeared detainees, along with female human rights activists.

The association’s main focus is the cause of abductees and victims of enforced disappearance and arbitrary arrest and detention. Since 2016, AMA has advocated for the release of innocent abductees with peaceful protests, as well as through research, reporting, and sharing information with international organizations.

AMA is a 60-member volunteer group of social activists, lawyers, and media contacts, who are the mothers, sisters, wives, and female family members of the disappeared detainees demanding the release of their relatives and ensuring the abductee and detainee’s rights and freedom.

Working throughout six provinces of Yemen, AMA also provides livelihood and psychosocial support to released detainees.

Core Areas of Work:

  • Peacemaking
  • Security Sector Reform
  • Juridical/legal institutions

Stories & Features

Abductees’ Mothers Association: On the Front Lines of Yemen’s Prisoner Swap

On the morning of Friday 16th October, the Abductees’ Mothers Association celebrated a major victory when Yemen’s warring parties completed the largest prisoner exchange in the history of the five-and-a-half-year long conflict. In a two-day process, 1,056 individuals held by both the Houthi rebels and the Yemeni government were released and transferred home. For many years, this coalition of mothers has been the only hope for Yemen’s forcibly disappeared. 

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November 13, 2020
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Freeing the Kidnapped in Yemen’s War: How Yemeni Mothers Succeeded Where Everyone Else Failed

How Yemeni Mothers Succeeded Where Everyone Else Failed. Thousands of young men are being forcibly disappeared in Yemen, and mediation efforts by the United Nations envoys, the Red Cross, and many other international organizations have not been successful. The only successful group so far is a coalition of Yemeni mothers, the Abductees’ Mothers’ Association.

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May 2, 2019
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Since our establishment, we organized 249 demonstrations to call for the release of detainees. We were able to facilitate the release of 944 detainees, while official agreements were not able to free one.

– Dr. Amat Al-Salam Al-Hajj CEO, Abductees’ Mothers Association, Yemen

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