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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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March 1, 2021
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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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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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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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Women for Development (WFD) is a women-led, grassroots, non-governmental organization based in Gyumri, Armenia. WFD was established in 1997 and was formed upon the vision of women shaping their future and bringing positive societal change to the communities of Armenia, particularly in the country’s most impoverished region of Shirak.

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Women’s Center for Guidance and Legal Aid (WCGLA) Egypt

The Women’s Center for Guidance and Legal Awareness (WCGLA) is a feminist, independent civil society organization based in Egypt, dedicated to advancing women’s rights, gender justice, and inclusive peacebuilding.

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Think Twice Brazil Brazil

Think Twice Brasil (TTB) is a social impact organization that supports individuals and institutions to interrupt cycles of violence and inequality through education, research, and the development of innovative strategies that advance peace, democratic participation, and human rights.

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Al Firdaws Society Iraq

Al-Firdaws Society is a leading Iraqi non-governmental organization founded in Basra in 2003.

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