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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

Women Relief Aid (WRA) is a women-led, non-governmental, nonprofit, non-political, and non-religious organization based in South Sudan.

WRA was founded in 2017 to provide support to marginalized women, girls and children, to respond to their immediate needs as well as promote and protect women’s and children’s human rights. WRA was established to address the challenges that emerged due to prolonged and continue fighting, coupled with global crises.

The organization operates in different states of South Sudan and provides a range of support in the areas of advocacy, education for marginalized women and girls, awareness raising around gender-based violence, women’s healthcare and rights, peacebuilding and social cohesion, women’s economic empowerment and livelihood support, emergency response and preparedness, environmental protection, and democratic governance.

In its approach, WRA works with local communities to develop activities at the grassroots level to bring peace, tolerance, and development in South Sudan.

ICAN’s Innovative Peace Fund has supported WRA since 2023.

Core Areas of Work:

  • Peacemaking
  • Emergency response
  • Crises & climate
  • CRSV and GBV
  • Economic empowerment and livelihood support

Stories & Features

“We Rise for a Peaceful South Sudan”: The Role of Women in Shaping Post-War South Sudan

With support from the Rapid Response Window of the United Nations Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund in partnership with the International Civil Society Action Network, Women Relief Aid, a South Sudanese women-led NGO and member of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership, is making remarkable strides to improve realities for women in the country.

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Our project has given [South Sudanese] women more opportunities to share their views and voices. Women were equipped with more skills and opportunities to contribute to the peace process at both local and national levels, reinforce their collective power, and challenge the social stereotypes and barriers that hinder their equal participation.

– Concy Dianah Program Coordinator, WRA, South Sudan

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