A Network of People Building Peace
23 October 2024Supporting Women’s Impactful Participation in Peace Processes: Learnings from Kyrgyzstan, Uganda, and Palestine
Our learning paper was launched during Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Week in New York at our event, “Making Global Policy Effective in Supporting...
6 September 2024How to elevate women’s role in conflict resolution?
A conversation with Joyce Ayikoru on lessons learned from Uganda by Pupul Lama.
In Yumbe District, a region in northwestern Uganda with a history...
19 March 2024Civil Society Statement: Peacebuilding Commission Expert-Level Meeting
On 19 March 2024, Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Programme Manager of the Pacific Women Mediators Network and GPPAC International Steering Group Gender Liaison...
7 March 2024Sustaining women's participation in peace efforts amidst escalating violence: The role of institutional support
Conflicts are not static; they change quickly and unexpectedly due to a combination of different factors interacting with one another. This...
7 March 2024#InvestinWomen within peacebuilding networks
Peacebuilding networks unite diverse people around a shared vision, working together to build peace and resolve conflicts. One of the key principles...
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6 March 2024
Integrating the WPS agenda across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus: Learnings from the Pacific
The Pacific Island region is often seen through a picture-perfect, postcard romantic lens - a dream place to live. However, beyond the picturesque...
6 September 2023The power of connecting local, regional and global levels of action: The story of the Pacific Women Mediators Network
The story you are about to read illustrates that the impact of peacebuilding does not happen overnight. It can take decades of building and nurturing...
6 March 2023GPPAC as an intermediary: Learnings from Palestine
Hilda Issa is the Executive Director of the feminist organisation Palestinian Center For Peace And Democracy (PCPD), based in Ramallah. In 2022, Hilda...
27 February 2023Developing National Action Plans on WPS: What role can civil society play?
National Action Plans (NAPs) on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) are powerful instruments that allow states to implement the United Nations WPS Agenda...
21 December 2022Including women in peacebuilding and conflict prevention: concrete learnings from GPPAC Gender Experts
How do we meaningfully include women and girls in peacebuilding and conflict prevention? Our Gender Experts explored this question during GPPAC...
23 November 2022Implementing Women, Peace and Security in Georgia: Where do we stand?
In November 2022, I engaged with the Geneva International Discussions (GID) – the multilateral forum to address the security and humanitarian...
20 October 2022Women, Peace and Security in Palestine: Peace starts and lasts with women’s participation
The Palestinian Centre for Peace and Democracy works for an inclusive and peaceful future through projects that aim to include Palestinian youth and...