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9 April 2024
Bridging Positions, Building Trust:  Women Peacebuilders & Security Actors

ICAN, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Norway, Sweden, and Canada, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (UKFCDO), the Ministry of Gender, Child and Welfare of South Sudan, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), and the National Transformational Leadership Institute (NTLI), convened a 1.5-day workshop to discuss how to strengthen community security as a localized, transformative approach for sustainable peace.

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25 March 2024
Operational Guidance to Establish and Enhance the Protection of Women Peacebuilders (Arabic)

Stemming from the report, “Protecting Women Peacebuilders: The Front Lines of Sustainable Peace,” this document provides operational guidance for states and multilateral institutions to protect women peacebuilders. This document is also available in English, Farsi, and Turkish.

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5 March 2024
Protecting Women Peacebuilders: The Front Lines of Sustainable Peace (Arabic)

This report distills the range of threats to women peacebuilders, analyzes existing protection mechanisms, and provides guidance to protect women peacebuilders. This report is also available in English, Farsi, French, Spanish, and Turkish. See related operational guidance on how to establish and enhance the protection of women peacebuilders here.

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9 April 2024
Bridging Positions, Building Trust:  Women Peacebuilders & Security Actors

ICAN, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Norway, Sweden, and Canada, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (UKFCDO), the Ministry of Gender, Child and Welfare of South Sudan, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), and the National Transformational Leadership Institute (NTLI), convened a 1.5-day workshop to discuss how to strengthen community security as a localized, transformative approach for sustainable peace.

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Marie-Joëlle Zahar is Pushing the Boundaries for Women in Security & Peacebuilding

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

Marie-Joëlle Zahar has been an ICAN Board Member since 2019. In this interview, she reflects on her early experiences during the war in Lebanon and how they shaped her journey in the world of conflict resolution, peacekeeping, post-conflict reconstruction, and gendered work. Marie-Joëlle shares stories of her time as a Senior Expert on the Standby Team of Mediation Experts at the UNDPPA, what it was like being one of the few women in international mediation spaces, and her advice for the next generation of women peacebuilders and WPS practitioners. Read more to view the full conversation.

Press Release: Launch of the Global Solutions Exchange

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

Join us. September 20, 2016 from 1:30 p.m. — 2:45 p.m. ET. Live streamed online at http://webtv.un.org/. On September 20th, during the opening of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of UN Women, and Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) will co-host the launch […]

The World at a Crossroads: Women Have the Solutions

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

PRESS RELEASE November 11, 2014 We, sixty women representing thirteen countries spanning the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, together with our colleagues from Europe and North America, gathered together in Turkey at the Third Annual Forum on Women’s Rights, Peace and Security, convened by the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), have one word to […]