Regional Desks
Sustaining Women’s Organizations

Documentation, Analysis, Dissemination
Regional and Intercontinental Consultations
(1997 – 2005)

Documentation, Analysis, Dissemination

WPP cooperates with existing archives and researchers to document grassroots women's peace initiatives, by continuing to collect and examine contemporary case histories of women’s nonviolent strategies for social inclusion, civil society and conflict resolution.

Documentation includes identifying the most difficult obstacles women face in making peace; the most successful strategies women have developed to overcome these obstacles; the specific skills that women have developed or lacked that led to their success or failure; and what training the activists received or developed to implement their strategy.

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International Women's Day for Peace and Disarmament

Every year WPP organizes 24 May, the International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament with a public event and a publication. WPP finds it important to organize its May publications and events around critical issues affecting the realities of women peacemakers on the ground.

May 24 2012

The role of youth in starting and leading nonviolent uprisings has received an increasing amount of attention during recent months, sparked in part by the Arab spring and the Occupy movements. As history has shown, the energy of young people is crucial to create the spark that can ignite a vibrant movement for change. It is WPP’s experience that all over the world, young people are working to make a difference. These young women and men not only question the world around them; they are also creative in formulating new and daring responses, using their own language and strategies in order to reach out to as many people as possible.

The 2012 May 24 Pack will provide the reader with inspiring case studies from different regions of the world, demonstrating the important role of youth in nonviolent change. It will focus on the importance of integrating a gender perspective in youth’s activism; will highlight some of the new nonviolent strategies and tools used by youth; and will explore how the women’s and peace movement are engaging young people in their activism.

May 26 2011: Religion: a threat for women’s rights or a driving force for social change and women’s peace activism?

A report on the day will be downloadable soon.

For the pictures, click here
Download the report here
For the free downloadable 24 May Action Pack 'Faith-based peacebuilding: The need for a gender perspective', click here
For a hard copy of the 24 May Action Pack 'Faith-based peacebuilding: The need for a gender perspective', contact us
For previous May 24 packages, click here
For presentations of speakers:

1. Powerpoint presentation from Cassandra Balchin (AWID) on Resisting & Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms. .
2. Speech from Hans Ulrich Gerber (IFOR) on Faith-based peace building and conflict transformation - Religion and Nonviolence
3. Powerpoint presentation from Nursyahbani Katjasungkana and Frank van Lierde (Cordaid) on female religious leaders in Indonesia

May 26 2011: Cassandra Balchin, Lead Researcher for Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms initiative from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID).

May 26 2011: Workshop Peacebuilding: Religion and Spirituality as a Source of Inspiration ( facilitated by Platform Women and Sustainable Peace)