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Empowering peaceExperts share why women improve peace outcomes for International Women’s Day
Mediators and peacebuilders stress the importance of gender equality in peace processes and how to support the next generation of peacebuilders.
- feature 7 Mar 2025
Women shaping peace after warHow networks of former combatants are driving gender-transformative peace processes
Long after peace deals are signed, women from resistance movements continue to lead. Their networks are spaces of healing, solidarity and transformation.
- feature 10 Jul 2025
Engendering political transformationGender-responsive support on the political participation of ex-combatants
This Primer guides DDR practitioners, peacebuilders, and partners in promoting gender-responsive political transformation within or beyond DDR processes. It calls for expanding reintegration efforts beyond livelihoods and security to include political participation as essential to lasting peace. Drawing on field experience, it shows how women, men, and gender-diverse ex-combatants face unique gendered challenges in entering politics. The Primer stresses tackling patriarchal norms and integrating gender-responsive approaches across all DDR phases, offering practical tools to support equitable and inclusive political participation for all former fighters.
- Year 2025
Europe must lead on Women, Peace and Security
25 years since its adoption, Chris Coulter urges governments and multilateral institutions to redouble efforts to mainstream the WPS Agenda.
- blog post 28 Oct 2025
- Author(s) Chris Coulter
How women build peace in Somalia, and what we can learn from their experiences
We must learn from women leaders on the ground who overcome gendered resistance to normalise peace.
- blog post 22 Jul 2026
- Author(s) Zainab Mohamed
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Conflict is inevitable, but violence is not. With support, people can transform violent conflicts into sustainable peace.
Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series No. 13 - IntroductionHandbook Dialogue Series No. 13
Berghof Handbook Dialogue No. 13 looks more deeply at what it takes to formulate transformative approaches to violent extremism. The lead article by Mohammed Abu-Nimer puts a call for interreligious peacebuilding centre-stage, which takes seriously and truly integrates the perspective of actors otherwise often defined as part of the problem. Respondents from a variety of backgrounds will, over the months to come, discuss these propositions. They will shed light on systemic contexts, the role of identity and gender, practice-oriented work with youth and regional contexts such as the Western Balkans and the MENA region.
- Year 2018
- Author(s) Beatrix Austin, Hans-Joachim Giessmann
Recovering from Violent Conflict: Regeneration and (Re-)Integration as Elements of PeacebuildingHandbook Article
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Martina Fischer