PeaceWomen Across the Globe

15/10/2026

🌍 Globally, women remain significantly underrepresented in formal negotiations, despite commitments under the Women, Peace and Security ( ) agenda. Where participation exists, it is often symbolic rather than meaningful.
☮️ But practice shows that peace processes extend far beyond formal negotiation tables. And women influence outcomes in a range of ways, including in advisory roles, through dialogue initiatives and in that connect local, national and international levels.

💡 The speakers at the panel at the challenged the narrow focus on “participation at the table”. In conversation with Deborah Schibler, director of Across the Globe and moderator of the panel, they gave examples of the ways in which women exert influence on peace processes beyond “the table”.

📣Suayan Barón Melgarejo, director of PeaceWomen Across the Globe’s Colombia office and Miara Fatima M. Mapandi, lead convenor Generation Peace Youth Network () and a member of our network in the Philippines as well as Alona Horova, head of the Institute for Peace and Common Ground, Ukraine, and Farima Nawabi, Afghanistan, showed: The women are legion and they are actively contributing to and building peace – against all odds.

The event was organised by the OSCE – The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in cooperation with PeaceWomen Across the Globe.

13/10/2026

Despite their consistent contributions to conflict prevention, , support and peacebuilding, women remain largely excluded from formal mediation and negotiation processes. In this increasingly challenging environment, women and the Women, Peace and Security agenda face mounting pressure to justify their relevance and continued presence in mediation spaces.
In a panel discussion at the on Monday, practitioners drew on their first-hand experience in different conflict contexts.
❓The session's central question was how the informal influence and power women exercise can be translated into formal impact within mediation and peace processes.
The head of PeaceWomen Across the Globe’s Colombia office, Suayan Barón Melgarejo, shared insights from Colombia: “Our experience in Colombia – especially with a process that we have been part of since last year, called Alianza Hilando Poderes (Weaving Powers Alliance), a network of peace activists who influenced one of the negotiation tables of the previous government – showed that this influence that we call informal is important to question and put into question the hierarchy that exists between what we call formal influence and informal influence.”
📅Join our panel discussion tomorrow, 14 October 2026 at : Rethinking women’s meaningful participation in peace processes.
👉More on that event: https://tinyurl.com/3cppw53w
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01/10/2026

La (vraie) colombe de la paix 🕊️ a gagné dimanche passé dans les urnes. Mais c’est une victoire qui ne doit pas cacher les défis énormes auxquels fait face la politique de la sécurité suisse.

En effet, dimanche, le peuple suisse a clairement rejeté l' par un net 70% de « non ». Un signal fort qui montre que la population suisse ne s’est pas fait berner par cette campagne mensongère, et que pour une grande majorité la sécurité ne naît pas du repli sur soi ou de la seule force militaire.

Certes il faut célébrer cette victoire. Mais ne pas relâcher. Car à l'instar de l'initiative sur la neutralité, la - adoptée par le Conseil Fédéral le 18 septembre - s'appuie fortement sur la défense militaire et le renforcement de l'industrie de l'armement, plutôt que sur la prévention des conflits armés. Les recommandations de la société civile, dont celles de PeaceWomen Across the Globe, pour modifier cette stratégie ont été (trop) peu entendues.

Le « non » à l'initiative sur la neutralité est un succès important. Il s'agit maintenant de veiller à ce que la politique de sécurité suisse suive ce signal : s'éloigner d'une conception étroite de la sécurité pour aller vers une politique qui place la prévention, les droits humains et la coopération internationale au centre.

On a encore du boulot 💪

30/09/2026

PeaceWomen Across the Globe is represented in two events at the Geneva Peace Forum 2026.
💡 In the second event on 14 October four women experts from Afghanistan, Colombia, the Philippines and Ukraine will challenge the narrow focus on “participation at the negotiating table”. Women remain underrepresented in formal negotiations and where participation exists, it is often symbolic rather than meaningful. The experts will highlight the many ways in which women influence peace processes. The discussion will be moderated by our director Deborah Schibler.
🔗More information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/4hx28ray

30/09/2026

PeaceWomen Across the Globe will be represented at two panel discussions at this year’s Geneva Peace Forum. The focus is on women’s participation and influence in peace processes.
💡 At the first event, on 12 October, peace practitioners from Colombia, Sudan and Ukraine will draw on first-hand experience of conflict contexts and identify strategies and innovations that have effectively bridged the gap between women's grassroots influence and their inclusion in formal processes. The panel will be followed by three parallel workshops.
🔗More information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/4hx28ray

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23/09/2026

Vingt-cinq ans après la résolution de l'ONU sur « les femmes, la paix et la sécurité » les femmes demeurent largement écartées des tables de négociation pour la paix. Pourtant, des études montrent que leur participation rend les accords plus durables. «Si les processus ne sont pas participatifs, il y a peu de chances que les résultats soient positifs», souligne Liv Halperin de Across the Globe.

23/09/2026

23/09/2026

Twenty-five years after the UN resolution on "Women, Peace and Security", women remain largely excluded from peace negotiations. Yet studies show that their participation makes agreements more sustainable. “Their work remains less visible and receives far less financial support,” emphasised Liv Halperin, senior adviser at PeaceWomen Across the Globe, during a radio interview on RTS – Radio Télévision Suisse on the programme “Tout un Monde”.

21/09/2026

For this year's International Day of Peace the United Nations has chosen the motto: “Invest in peace: for everyone, everywhere, every day” to honour “the work of ‘everyday peace architects’ – the people who take action on the ground, lay the foundations for stability and build lasting peace from the ground up.” We couldn't agree more.
Women and feminist peace activists who are directly affected by armed conflicts and wars are at the centre of PeaceWomen Across the Globe‘s work. Every day, they work to create and sustain peace and to prevent armed conflicts.

02/09/2026

❌Öffnet eure Abstimmungscouverts und setzt ein X bei NEIN zur Neutralitätsinitiative. Neutralität bedeutet nicht Tatenlosigkeit + Abschottung. Militarisierung + Aufrüstung führen nicht zu mehr Sicherheit. Sicherheit für alle braucht und engagierte .

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