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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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Country - Cameroon

Pathways for Women’s Empowerment and Development & Integrated Agricultural Training Center (PaWED-AITC) is a Cameroon-based non-governmental organization advancing gender equality, inclusive peacebuilding, and social cohesion. PaWED-AITC addresses the root causes of gender inequality and conflict through advocacy, community engagement, and capacity strengthening, with a strong focus on preventing and responding to gender-based violence (GBV). The organization has contributed to the evaluation of Cameroon’s UNSCR 1325 National Action Plan, the UNSCR 1325 at 25 review process, the development of National Action Plans, and the design of a national GBV legal framework currently pending submission to Parliament, while promoting women’s leadership in peace and development. PaWED-IATC joined ICAN’s She Build Peace Campaign in 2021.

Core Areas of Work:

  • CRSV and GBV
  • Peacemaking
  • Preventing and countering violent extremism

I hope for a future built on compassion, unity and hope.

– Nicoline Nwenushi Founder and CEO, Pathways for Women’s Empowerment and Development (PaWED)

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Self-Resourcing and Income-Generation in Peacebuilding Work: How Women Peacebuilders Put the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus into Practice

ICAN and our partners in WASL have always recognized the need to break down silos between the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding sectors. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated in stark terms how women peacebuilders are present, active, preemptive, and responsive to crises, leveraging limited resources to tackle multiple challenges in fragile contexts. To better respond to situations as they arise and meet the immediate humanitarian and security needs of their communities, women peacebuilders are combining their peacebuilding work with the provision of livelihoods training activities. To complement donor funding, some women peacebuilders are implementing income generation and “self-resourcing” strategies that enable them to autonomously fund and sustain their peacebuilding work. On Wednesday 15th December, we held the first of an ongoing series of discussions about this expansive topic. In our final thematic WASL call of 2021, WASL members from Yemen, Cameroon, Tajikistan, Libya, Liberia and Syria shared their experiences combining livelihoods support, income-generation and self-resourcing with peacebuilding activities.

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December 22, 2021
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She Builds Peace in Cameroon: PaWED

Pathways for Women’s Empowerment and Development (PaWED) organized a She Builds Peace campaign launch event for women peacebuilders to present their work, network and develop partnerships.

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June 29, 2022
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Empatiku Foundation Indonesia

Empatiku is a civil society organization based in Indonesia that fosters empathy in the security and education sectors and addresses the rise of violent extremism. Since its establishment in 2015, Empatiku has innovated its programs to ensure the involvement of civil society, especially women, in bringing about social change.

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IMAN Research Malaysia

IMAN Research is a think tank based in Kuala Lumpur that focuses on issues of security, peacebuilding, and sustainable development. It provides academic and informal research to governments, development organizations, and specialists working in policy-development.

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Qadims Lumiere School and College Pakistan

Qadims Lumiere School and College was founded by Bushra Qadim Hyder in Peshawar, Pakistan. The institution provides a positive alternative to violent extremism through education, actively addressing divisions among Pakistani identity groups and gender inequalities that are exploited by extremist outfits.

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Digital Shelter Somalia

Digital Shelter is an initiative founded in March 2018 by human rights defenders in Somalia who are committed to advancing digital safety, digital rights, internet freedom, and digital inclusion.

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National Transformational Leadership Institute (NTLI) South Sudan

The National Transformational Leadership Institute (NTLI) was launched in 2016 as a partnership between the University of Juba, the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, and UN Women South Sudan. Created to meet South Sudan’s urgent need for ethical, inclusive, gender-responsive policies and visionary leadership in the aftermath of conflict, NTLI has quickly risen as a regional center of excellence in East Africa.

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Afghan Women News Agency Organization (AWNAO) Afghanistan

Afghan Women News Agency Organization (AWNAO) is a nonprofit, non-political, and non-governmental organization that supports women’s participation in social activities. Its work amplifies women’s voices through news and magazine publications, advocacy, capacity building, and education.

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Afghan Women Skills Development Center (AWSDC) Afghanistan

The Afghan Women Skills Development Center (AWSDC) is a non-governmental organization, founded in 1999 and dedicated to the promotion and protection of women’s rights in Afghanistan.

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Equality for Peace and Democracy (EPD) Afghanistan

Equality for Peace and Development Organization (EPDO) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization established in 2010 in Afghanistan. EPDO works to promote women’s rights, social cohesion, civil society, and inclusive community development, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.

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Kaaj Media Production Afghanistan

Kaaj Magazine is a digital magazine led by Farahnaz Forotan, one of Afghanistan’s prominent journalists, who heads a distinguished editorial team dedicated to telling the human stories of a nation shaped by decades of conflict.

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