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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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Yakjah Reconciliation and Development Network (Yakjah) is a youth and women-led nonprofit organization and social innovator for peacebuilding, based in India. It is a non-partisan platform for women and youth vulnerable to marginalization, polarization, and radicalization by conflict experiences. Through workshops and creative methodologies, youth from different communities, faith traditions, and regions come together to learn how to create a unifying perspective and develop their leadership skills. These activies promote peaceful coexistence and the advancement of knowledge and craft as forces for progress and peace in their regions. It aims to build a just, diverse, and accountable society by developing peace leaders who promote fairness, inclusivity, and cultural values at all levels. Yakjah joined ICAN’s She Builds Peace campaign in 2020.

Core Areas of Work:

  • Preventing and countering violent extremism
  • Reconciliation and community resilience

Peacebuilders don’t quit. We transform, even when the world is collapsing.

– Ashima Kaul Founder and Managing Director of Yakjah

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She Builds Peace in India: Yakjah

Yakjah Reconciliation & Development Network launched the She Builds Peace campaign in India with a six-day webinar focused on gender, public health, and national policy.

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Women Peacebuilders on the Frontlines of COVID-19

Many of our WASL partners, alongside other women peacebuilders, have pivoted their work to respond to COVID-19 and related issues: community awareness-raising, distributing supplies, calling for ceasefires, working to prevent domestic violence as people are quarantined or self-distancing at home, and more. Women peacebuilders are again on the frontlines, working to prevent the spread of a pandemic in their communities.

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Center for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance (CEWLA) Egypt

The Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA) is a non-governmental organization that was founded in 1995. Its strives to offer Egyptian women legal support and assistance regarding their rights under the Egyptian Constitution and laws, and international conventions.

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Women for Justice Foundation (WJF) is an Egyptian-Canadian nonprofit organization based in Ottawa, Canada and established in 2019.

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The Regional Coalition for Women Human Rights Defenders in South West Asia and North Africa (WHRDMENA) is a group of women human rights defenders – individuals and groups – who have established a coalition of women defenders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

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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

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