ICAN - International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN)

Now in Spanish: 10 Steps to Ensure Gender Responsive Processes & Ceasefire Agreements

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Lauren Mellows

10 Steps to Ensure Gender Responsive Processes & Ceasefire Agreements is now available in Spanish. The 2-page document is a practical guidance piece intended to inform governments, international organizations, and civil society organizations involved in local, national and regional ceasefire negotiations.

ICAN’s Sanam Naraghi Anderlini Appointed Director of LSE Centre for Women, Peace & Security

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Lauren Mellows

The ICAN board proudly congratulates ICAN’s CEO and Founder, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini for joining the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security (LSE WPS) as part time director from December 2019.

ICAN Co-Hosts UNGA Side Event on Linkages Between the SDG 16 and PVE Agendas

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Lauren Mellows

ICAN and the Prevention Project co-hosted “Two Sides of the Same Coin? Operationalizing Linkages Between the SDG 16 and PVE Agendas,” a side event to the 74th session of the UN General Assembly. The event expanded on a discussion during the UN High-Level Political Forum in July 2019 that explored the linkage between UN Sustainable Development Goal 16 (peaceful and inclusive societies) and the preventing violent extremism (PVE) agenda.

Two Sides of the Same Coin? Operationalizing Linkages Between the SDG 16 and PVE Agendas

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Lauren Mellows

On July 15, 2019, the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Prevention Project—Organizing Against Violent Extremism, and the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), convened a day-long expert roundtable on the margins of the UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development.

ICAN & WASL Exchange Experience on the Protection of Peacebuilders at the Caux Forum

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Lauren Mellows

Members of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) gathered with ICAN who partnered with Initiatives of Change to host the 2019 Caux Forum: Towards an Inclusive Peace. With an emphasis on integrated approaches to prevention, over 100 peacebuilders from around the world gathered in Caux, Switzerland for four days of panel discussions, storytelling, country focused sessions, and thematic workshops.

Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: ICAN Delivers Training in Cameroon

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Lauren Mellows

ICAN facilitated a training on gender and preventing and countering violent extremism organized by the Commonwealth Secretariat’s CVE Unit, from 11-14 June in Douala, Cameroon. The participants were comprised mainly of women civil society actors who have been working in various ways to address violence and build peace in their communities, among them were journalists, lawyers, psychotherapists, educators, youth workers and others.