WILPF's Women, Peace and Security Programme
PeaceWomen is the Women, Peace and Security Programme of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the oldest women's peace organization in the world. We work for feminist peace by strengthening women’s meaningful participation, transforming gendered power, and bridging local gender conflict analysis with global efforts to implement a holistic WPS Agenda.
Our website features information about women peace leaders, our monitoring of the United Nations Security Council and other UN fora, and contains almost 30,000 resources on issues of gender, peace and security in our Resource Centre.
Our Recent Work
Petrobromance, Nuclear Priesthood, and Police Repression: Feminist Confrontations of Violent Industries, and Movements to Abolish Them analyses, from a feminist perspective, trends and parallels in how the nuclear and fossil fuel industries operate and entrench power; their impacts on communities, including gendered impacts; and suppression of resistance.
This document offers an extended version of our submission in relation to the Zero Draft of the Pact for the Future; and presents our vision of changes we believe are necessary in order for the multilateral system to deliver on the promises made in the UN Charter, including on the WPS agenda.
If states are serious about tackling CRSV they must pay attention to the gendered symbolic gestures that objectify and are intended to demean women and girls; that perpetuate sexist behaviour often at the intersection with race; that normalise gender inequality and discrimination; and that stand as a continuum of violence. More by Louise Arimatsu, Madeleine Rees & Christine Chinkin for WILPF's blog.
Every year, the annual Open Debate on WPS takes place within a context of persistent violence, instability, and armed conflict. The Council, however, must avoid whiplash: jumping from crisis to crisis and engaging at a superficial level with each one, while individual members are contributing to worsening the situation. This mode of action ignores the interconnectedness of each crisis, and omits a deeper, more meaningful engagement with root causes and structural phenomena.
WILPF’s International Programme guides the work, values, and actions of the key bodies of the organisation – International Congress, National Sections and Groups, International Board, and International Secretariat – as we work towards our shared vision. The 2022-2025 version was adopted at the 2022 International Congress.
"Think & Resist: Conversations about Feminism and Peace" explores how feminism can redefine security. Each episode features representatives from WILPF’s Women, Peace and Security and Disarmament teams moderating discussions with experts about different themes in international peace and security from a feminist lens.
