Challenging Conventional Wisdom, Transforming Current Practices: A Gendered Lens

PVE, Deradicalization, and Reintegration Policy Briefs

Challenging-Conventional-Wisdom - International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN)

This brief argues for a shift in C/PVE towards an agenda that is pro-peace, resilience, equality, and pluralism.

Grading the United Nations: 2025 Peacebuilding Architecture Review Consultation with Local Women Peacebuilders

This GPPAC brief provides an overview of the perspectives of local women peacebuilders on the effectiveness and impact of the UN System and the donor community in advancing peacebuilding and sustaining peace at the field level.

Reclaiming Power, Restoring Peace: Key Findings from ICAN’s 2022 Women, Peace, and Security Forum

Informed by WASL members’ analysis and experiences, this paper seeks to inform international policy debates and offer recommendations for programming.

Fund Us Like You Want Us To Win: Feminist Solutions for more Impactful Financing for Peacebuilding

This brief focuses on structural barriers faced by women peacebuilders in accessing funds and presents concrete, innovative, and practical solutions.

The SDG 16 and PVE Agendas: Different Currencies or Two Sides of the Same Coin?

This brief highlights challenges impeding progress on the global PVE and SDG 16 agendas, underscoring how they are interrelated.

From the Ground Up – The Nexus of Economic Policy, Gender and Violent Extremism

Informed by WASL and the Global Solutions Exchange, this brief examines the nexus of economic policy, gender, and extremism.

National Action Plans on Preventing Violent Extremism

This brief analyzes nine NAPs, considering how specific themes were discussed, including education, civil society, gender, and human rights.

Education, Identity, and Rising Extremism

Informed by WASL and the Global Solutions Exchange, this brief examines the role of education in enabling and mitigating extremism.

Preventing Violent Extremism, Protecting Rights and Community Policing

Informed by WASL and the Global Solutions Exchange, this brief examines the role of civil society and security partnerships in PVE.

Bringing Peace to Yemen by Having Women at the Table

This brief examines existing efforts to enable the participation of civil society voices, notably women, in Yemen’s formal negotiations.

Challenging Conventional Wisdom, Transforming Current Practices: A Gendered Lens

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