PeaceWomen Across the Globe

Feminists Connecting for Peace is our growing global network of peacebuilders. It grew out of the initiative “1000 Women for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize” and has developed into a global community of peace activists. It aims to provide safety and solidarity; enable local, regional and global advocacy; give visibility to peacebuilders; ensure exchange, shared learning and knowledge sharing; and facilitate access to decision-making, resources and relevant actors. Through our Feminist Peace Initiatives (FPI), we provide technical and financial support to local, innovative and feminist peacebuilding initiatives and projects of our network members.

Within the network, we coordinate four main activities:

Exchange

Together with our network members, we organise physical and digital exchanges and network meetings to share knowledge and experiences on peace policy issues. As peace activists work in difficult circumstances, they also use the spaces for mutual psychosocial support.

Knowledge transfer

Peacebuilders contribute their everyday experiences, their peacebuilding activities and their contacts to the network and lead or participate in training events. We document this knowledge and develop practical tools and guidelines in various formats for network members, partners, decision-makers and the general public.

Visibility and advocacy

We give visibility to the peace work of our network members and support their advocacy and political demands through various channels and interventions.

Feminist Peace Initiatives

With our Feminist Peace Initiatives (FPI) we support local, innovative and feminist peacebuilding initiatives and projects of our network members. They are a tool for supporting initiatives that promote the meaningful participation of women in all stages of peace processes through self-identified community needs. The maximum amount of funding provided by PeaceWomen Across the Globe is CHF 5,000 per Initiative. This relatively small amount is intended to enable innovative feminist projects to get off the ground quickly without having to jump through many of the hoops associated with larger, more traditional donors. We prioritise initiatives of organisations that have not previously received support from us in the form of an FPI.

Are you a local peacebuilder with an innovative idea to advance feminist peace and need quick funding to implement it? Send an email with your idea and the subject “Feminist Peace Initiative” to:

larissa.lee@1000peacewomen.org

Criteria

When applying for FPI funding, please consider the following criteria. We support:

Activities supporting initiatives that promote the meaningful participation of women in peace processes at all stages.
Activities that are based on self-identified community needs and priorities.
Activities that are innovative in nature.
Activities that contribute to local, regional or national movement and/or coalition building.
Activities that are not part of other large projects, but are stand-alone initiatives.
Activities that are scalable.

1000 PeaceWomen

The 1000 PeaceWomen are activists from around the world who were collectively nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. Several are still part of our growing network of women peace activists today.

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Insights into the network

Together with members of our network Feminists Connecting for Peace, we organise exchange and network meetings, offer training and workshops and work together on advocacy work and developing Feminist Peace Initiatives. An overview of these activities.

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