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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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Empirical Evidence, Imagined Alternatives

ICAN conducts cutting-edge research and analysis on inclusive peacemaking, gender and extremisms, the protection of peacebuilders, and other interrelated subjects.

Governments, multilateral organizations, academics, and civil society internationally use our resources to train staff and guide the development of gender-responsive policies.

On this page, you can find a selection of our flagship resources.

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Our Flagship Research

Gender Responsive and Inclusive Peacemaking
Recognizing Women Peacebuilders: Critical Actors in Effective Peacemaking

This brief explores who women peacebuilders are and what they do. It includes a 10-point operational guidance and examples of precedence that guarantee the participation of women peacebuilders in track one peace processes.
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The Better Peace Tool

The Better Peace Tool considers six common barriers to inclusion in peacemaking and how to overcome them. It presents a four-part framework for the inclusion of women peacebuilders, offering proactive steps to broaden participation.

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Gender and Extremisms
Case Studies on the Role of Gender and Identity in Shaping Positive Alternatives to Extremisms

ICAN, with the support of Global Affairs Canada, developed a set of case studies on the role of gender and identity in shaping positive alternatives to extremisms in Cameroon, Indonesia, Jordan, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Sweden, and the United States.

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Invisible Women: Gendered Dimensions of Return, Rehabilitation and Reintegration from Violent Extremism

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ICAN authored Invisible Women: Gendered Dimensions of Return, Reintegration and Rehabilitation, which maps the gaps and challenges pertaining to the reintegration and rehabilitation of women and girls associated with violent extremist movements and establishes a preliminary evidence-base of good practices and approaches.

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Challenging Conventional Wisdom, Transforming Current Practices: A Gendered Lens

ICAN Founder and CEO Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE contributed to Transformative Approaches to Violent Extremism, the Berghof Handbook Dialogue on Preventing Violent Extremism. She offers a framework for a shift in the discourse and practice of C/PVE, arguing that to be effective in ending violent extremism, an agenda that is not only “against” extremism, but also pro-peace, resilience, equality, and pluralism (PREP) must be articulated.

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Protection of Peacebuilders 
Protecting Women Peacebuilders: The Front Lines of Sustainable Peace 

This brief outlines the complex matrix of risk and threats women peacebuilders face. It analyzes the strengths of and gaps in existing protection mechanisms and provides operational guidance to protect women peacebuilders.
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Feminist Funding
Funding Women Peacebuilders: Dismantling Barriers to Peace

This brief highlights the gaps between policy and practice in funding women peacebuilders. It provides operational guidance to address the barriers and improve practices to better support women’s peace and security efforts.
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Our Strategies, Our Peace: Women Peacebuilders in their Own Words

ICAN’s documentation initiative seeks to showcase women peacebuilders’ strategies through a series of autoethnographies, culminating in a published, edited volume. Building on our Recognizing Women Peacebuilders Framework, these autoethnographies will emphasize the ways in which women peacebuilders blend different sources of power and leverage to shape their work.
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