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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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About the Organization

PAIMAN Alumni Trust is a non-governmental, nonprofit organization, which was established in 2004 in Islamabad, Pakistan. The organization’s multi-faceted services include capacity building, economic and social development of community partners, research, and advocacy. PAIMAN Alumni Trust also serves as a resource center for disseminating information, as well as a platform for civic action for positive change through community mobilization and advocacy.

PAIMAN’s main mission is to serve as a link between people and their communities through meaningful initiatives that change their lives for the better and promote community development. PAIMAN has worked across various initiatives, including engaging religious leaders and inter-faith communities, supporting youth to build community resilience and social cohesion, providing peace education, and raising awareness around the impacts of violent extremism.

The organization’s work has also included socio-economic empowerment and livelihood support in marginalized communities, promoting healthcare and wellbeing, strengthening civic engagement and democracy, as well as crisis response and disaster management.

ICAN’s Innovative Peace Fund has supported PAIMAN Alumni Trust since 2015.

Core Areas of Work:

  • Peacemaking
  • PVE
  • Crises and climate
  • Protection
  • Promoting political engagement
  • Economic empowerment and livelihood support

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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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The Odd Couple: Women Peacebuilders and Security Actors Bridging Positions, Building Trust

Trust between communities and the security sector is critical for effective governance and peace. So is a vibrant civil society. When women peacebuilders are recognized and engaged as independent, strategic partners and security actors—in their own right—the results are transformative. Twenty-five years on from the launch of the WPS agenda, women peacebuilders’ creativity and contributions to societal peace and security are not only timely, they are even more essential.

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May 12, 2025
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Bridging Positions, Building Trust:  Women Peacebuilders & Security Actors

ICAN, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Norway, Sweden, and Canada, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (UKFCDO), the Ministry of Gender, Child and Welfare of South Sudan, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), and the National Transformational Leadership Institute (NTLI), convened a 1.5-day workshop to discuss how to strengthen community security as a localized, transformative approach for sustainable peace.

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April 9, 2024
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She Builds Peace in Pakistan: PAIMAN

The She Builds Peace campaign was launched in Pakistan by PAIMAN Alumni Trust.

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February 3, 2021
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Pakistan’s PAIMAN: Peace Networks of Women Leaders to Combat Violent Extremism

With support from ICAN’s Innovative Peace Fund (IPF), PAIMAN has been actively working in the Charsadda district of Pakistan to strengthen its TOLANA network, a peace network comprising over 150 women, mainly mothers. The aim is to equip these women with the necessary tools to improve their livelihoods and combat violent extremism effectively.

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November 19, 2020
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Invisible Women: Gendered Dimensions of Return, Rehabilitation and Reintegration from Violent Extremism

This report contributes a gendered analysis of approaches to the disengagement, rehabilitation and reintegration of women and girls associated with violent extremism. It highlights the gaps in current policies and practice, as well as the solutions that are emerging in part from the experiences and innovations of women-led civil society initiatives. The report concludes with practical recommendations for policymakers and programming guidance for practitioners.

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January 11, 2019
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Engendering Extremism: Working Paper by Mossarat Qadeem to LSE

Drawing on work with PAIMAN in Pakistan, this paper, written by WASL Partner and PAIMAN co-founder Mossarat Qadeem for the LSE Center for Women, Peace and Security, shows how women at various levels of Pakistani society can advance the cause for a more robust strategy on P/CVE.

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August 20, 2018
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We are the foot soldiers, we are the first responders. We are more powerful than any soldiers, we are the most powerful people on earth because we have the capacity to do what others cannot do.

 – Mossarat Qadeem Co-Founder, PAIMAN, Pakistan

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