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Security Reimagined: ICAN’s 2026 Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Forum

ICAN's WPS Forum 2026: Security Reimagined

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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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1 September 2026
Security Reimagined: ICAN’s 2026 Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Forum

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Country - Yemen

Core Areas of Work:

Crises and Climate, CRSV and GBV, Economic Empowerment and Livelihood Support, Peacemaking

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About the Organization

The Youth Leadership Development Foundation (YLDF) is an organization that envisions a Yemen in which young women and men can take on leadership roles in all areas of society and contribute to a better world.

Established in 1998, the YLDF works to enhance youth employability, support economic empowerment and livelihoods, and strengthens youth’s capacities to participate in community development. YLDF encourages and promotes women’s inclusion in political and peacebuilding processes through advocacy, as well as strengthening youth’s capacity to apply gender sensitive peacebuilding strategies in their communities.

YLDF’s efforts also focus on building resilient communities, supporting the delivery of humanitarian aid, and addressing gender-based violence in conflict and crises.

ICAN’s Innovative Peace Fund has supported YLDF since 2018.

Core Areas of Work:
  • Peacemaking
  • Crises
  • CRSV and GBV
  • Humanitarian Response
  • Economic empowerment and livelihood support

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“لقد ألغينا الصمت”: كيف تعيد لجان السلام المحلية بناء الثقة في سوريا

بعد أكثر من عقد من الحرب، تشهد سوريا مرحلة انتقالية هشة. لقد كتب سقوط نظام الأسد في ديسمبر/كانون الأول من عام 2024 نهاية أكثر من 50 عاما من الحكم الاستبدادي، ولكنه لم يجلب الاستقرار الفوري. بل على العكس، يواجه البلد أزمة اقتصادية متفاقمة، وتوترات أمنية، وانتهاكات مستمرة لحقوق الإنسان، ونزوحا جماعيا، وتفككا اجتماعيا حادا. أكثر […]

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July 16, 2026
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“We Canceled Silence”: How Local Peace Committees Rebuild Trust in Syria

Across Syria, communities are finding ways to reconnect after years of war through dialogue, storytelling, art, and collective action. Mobaderoon’s Local Peace Committees demonstrate why lasting peace begins within communities themselves.

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June 8, 2026
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Ukrainian peacebuilder Nina Potarska sails to challenge illegal blockade of Gaza

Nina Potarska, a member of the ICAN-spearheaded Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership, is currently at sea with the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian-led mission organized with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, en route to Gaza. 

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April 28, 2026
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مكافحة التطرف في العراق: أفق جديد للسلام

مدينة البصرة في جنوب العراق، المدينة التي تضررت طويلا من الحرب وقلة الاستثمارات، تواجه تهديدات متزايدة بسبب خطاب الكراهية والتطرف وتآكل الثقة بين المواطنين والمؤسسات. وغالبا ما يقع الشباب -وخاصة الشابات- في قلب هذه التوترات، في عالم تتقاطع فيه المضايقات والتحرش الالكتروني مع الواقع. وفي مثل هذه البيئة، تتبنى جمعية الفردوس العراقية (الفردوس) نهجا جديدا […]

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March 31, 2026
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She Builds Peace: A Global Movement Growing Stronger Six Years On

In March 2020, ICAN and its global network of women-led peacebuilding organizations, WASL, launched the She Builds Peace (SBP) campaign.

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March 11, 2026
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Our traditions accept women in leadership. We try to use an Islamic approach in training gender, in mainstreaming gender. Justice and equality are presented in the Qur’an. It’s not a Western idea, it came over 1,000 years ago from our own Islamic culture.

– Dr. Antelak Almutawakel Co-Founder, Youth Leadership Development Foundation, Yemen

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