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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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About the Organization

Coast Education Centre (COEC) is an organization based in Kenya that promotes the participation of youth, women, and other marginalized social groups in community development. COEC contributes to local, national, and international efforts to promote human rights, development, and social well-being. Its programs focus on issues including women’s and youth empowerment, human rights and religious tolerance, youth’s political participation, and addressing violent extremism.

ICAN’s Innovative Peace Fund has supported COEC since 2018, including supporting the organization to draft a women’s countering violence extremism charter which was added to the national strategy on counterterrorism to ensure a gendered perspective and increased collaboration with civil society.

Core Areas of Work:

  • Peacemaking
  • PVE, Deradicalization, and Reintegration
  • Women's Participation
  • Youth Participation

WASL to me means family, and I have a lot of sisters across the world. You connect to everybody in different ways. You have those who speak different languages, but you get a hug, and it’s like we all understand one another. The struggles that one goes through and what I go through is the same, because we are women peacebuilders, human rights defenders.

– Halima Mohamed Executive Director, Coast Education Center, Kenya

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She Builds Peace: A Global Movement Growing Stronger Six Years On

In March 2020, ICAN and its global network of women-led peacebuilding organizations, WASL, launched the She Builds Peace (SBP) campaign.

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Our Strategies, Our Peace: ICAN’s Writers’ Workshop  

ICAN convened 20 members of WASL in Lisbon for the “Our Strategies, Our Peace” Writers’ Workshop. This unique gathering provided a secure and creative space for women peacebuilders to share their strategies, experience, expertise, and stories from conflict and crisis contexts.

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October 29, 2025
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She Builds Peace in Kenya: COEC

COEC launched the She Builds Peace campaign with a conference that brought together government officials, religious clergy, members of peace committees, and women peacebuilders for a discussion on the role of women peacebuilders in Kenya.

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Kenya’s COEC: Gender-Inclusivity and Countering Violent Extremism

With support from ICAN’s Innovative Peace Fund (IPF), COEC created the Coast Women’s CVE Charter, which it presented to the Government of Kenya in October 2018. The recommendations focused on psychosocial support, gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation of CVE policy and programs, and fund availability to women-led organizations.

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Sanam Anderlini and Halima Mohamed Featured Speakers at UN Group of Friends of PVE

“Global Leadership, Local Partnerships Women’s Leadership and Gender Perspectives on Preventing Violent Extremism,” high-level UN meeting was attended by the Secretary-General António Guterres and more than twenty Permanent Representatives of Member States.

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