Conflict Prevention

General

News
Resources
Initiatives
Publications
Organizations

Conflict Prevention is one of the central pillars of the women, peace and security agenda. Recognizing and including the contribution of women in conflict prevention efforts was an important part of the goal of the women’s peace groups that advocated for the adoption of SCR 1325 by the Security Council. Unfortunately this aspect of the women, peace and security agenda has not garnered as much attention as it warrants and much work remains to be done to make the prevention of conflict the ultimate goal of all actors. Women’s involvement and the mainstreaming of gender perspectives into conflict prevention processes are essential to durable peace, security and reconciliation. This includes the incorporation of gender-sensitive indicators into early warning systems and the strengthening of prevention strategies relating to violence against women. Read More>>

General - Basics

Read About Conflict Prevention

View All News

November 15, 2012 (Palestinian News Network)
PALESTINE: PCHR Condemns the Attacks on Peaceful Assemblies in Gaza and Hebron The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the Palestinian female police's violent dispersal of a women's sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service (PPS) in Hebron. PCHR also condemns the detention of eight civilians participating yesterday in a peaceful sit-in organized by female activists by security services in Gaza; PCHR further condemns the assaulting of some of these civilians. PCHR calls upon the public prosecutors in Ramallah and Gaza to open serious investigations into these attacks and bring the perpetrators to justice.
October 23, 2012 (Al Monitor)
IRAN: Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Predicts Persian Spring Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi spoke to Sophie Claudet last week on the sidelines of the Women's Forum in Deauville, France. Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi told Sophie Claudet in an interview that renewed protests against the Iranian government are imminent and that the opposition is working behind the scenes even if the state's crackdown has kept it off the streets. She also gave her views on Iran's nuclear program, Iranian politics, sanctions and the Arab revolutions.
September 15, 2012 (The Jerusalem Post)
ISRAEL/PALESTINE: Israeli and Palestinian Women Launch Joint Arts and Crafts Businesses in Effort to Promote Reconciliation, Peace As the sun set over Jerusalem, about one hundred women milled around tables covered with hand-made crafts. There were delicate earrings, hand-embroidered shawls, olive wood jewelry boxes and brightly colored ceramic bowls. There was chatter in Hebrew and Arabic and a lot of laughter. It was the third annual pre-holiday craft and jewelry sale sponsored by Joint Ventures for Peace, a group of Israeli and Palestinian women who have opened small businesses together. What is unique about this group is that each craft project is fashioned by a pair of women — one Israeli and one Palestinian. But each time they need to work together, it requires that a permit be obtained from Israeli officials: either for the Israeli partner to enter the Palestinian territories or for the Palestinian woman to enter Israel.
September 8, 2012 (InterPress Service News)
INTERNATIONAL: Culture of Peace Should Replace Culture of Violence UNITED NATIONS, Sep 8 2012 (IPS) - When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the High-Level Forum on Culture of Peace later this week, he will transmit a message that underlines his political philosophy: all disputes need to be resolved by peaceful means, not through military might.
June 29, 2012 (Equal Power, Lasting Peace: Kvinna till Kvinna)
LEBANON: Lebanese Protests Against Violence Near the Syrian Border The Lebanese Council to Resist Violence against Women (LECORVAW) in Tripoli is working to support abused women and has also, together with other organizations, been assisting Syrian women, who fled to Lebanon, with counseling and medical care.

View All Resources

INTERNATIONAL: Conflict in the Somali Region of Ethiopia: Can Education Promote Peace-Building?, Bridges Network // Tufts University, 20 March 2011 | Download PDF
INTERNATIONAL: Engaging Boys and Young Men in the Prevention of Sexual Violence: A Systematic and Global Review of Evaluated Interventions, C Ricardo; M Eads; G Barker , 2011 | Download PDF
INTERNATIONAL:Women Without Arms: Gendered Fighter Constructions in Eritrea and South Sudan, Annette Weber, December 2011 | Download PDF
General Assembly Meeting on the Role of Member States in Mediation, Allison Chandler, May 23, 2012 | Download PDF
P@X online bulletin (#18), IANSA Women's Network at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, January 1, 2012

View All Initiatives

CONFERENCE: Call for Participation, The Women in Public Service Project, Conferences & Meetings, , July 7 - 19, 2013
BLOG: Day 3: A Small Piece Of War By Your Ear, Online Dialogues & Blogs, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), November 27, 2012
BLOG: Day 4: Australia - The Uncritical US Alley? , Online Dialogues & Blogs, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), November 28, 2012
WORKSHOP: Tweeting to End Gun Violence, Training & Workshops, Global Action to Prevent War, June 17, 2011
INTERVIEW: Women Must be Part of the Peace Equation, Other, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP), March 21 2011