Feminists Connecting for Peace, our global network of peacebuilders, is at the heart of our work. Together with our network members, we organise physical and digital exchanges and network meetings, provide demand-driven capacity building and workshops, work on joint advocacy, develop Feminist Peace Initiatives and provide psychosocial support.
We invite you to browse this page to get an impression of the network’s diverse activities.
Find out more about the Feminist Peace Initiatives and the application criteria.
With a Feminist Peace Initiative, we supported a Women's Peace Table in the Great Lakes region, which enabled dialogue between different women from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
We supported safe spaces for women and girls in Lebanon affected by the escalation of the conflict between Hezbollah and the Israeli army in autumn 2024, enabling them to build solidarity and develop strategies despite the armed conflict.
In three webinars, 53 Belarusian women dissidents and activists anonymously exchanged views on peace, militarisation and security. This project, which we supported with the Feminist Peace Initiatives, helped to break the women's sense of isolation and strengthen solidarity among them.
40 members of the feminist network IWNAM met in the Philippines. They developed a network strategy and an action plan and published a declaration with concrete demands for political leaders and decision-makers.
In February 2024, we invited 12 women peace activists from all over the world to Bern. The aim: to exchange knowledge, brainstorm, and develop strategies to realise common goals and strengthen the network.
At a retreat in October 2023, feminist activists from various provinces in Indonesia came together in a safe space where they could process their past, their traumas, their emotions and disappointments through art, psychological support and a network of feminists facing similar repression and difficulties.
In Brazil, our partner Associação Mulheres pela Paz produced a podcast series that looks at the setbacks that democracy experienced during the Bolsonaro years from a feminist perspective. The four episodes deal with the polarised Brazilian society and the effects of the sexist and misogynistic government - and the promising changes following the change of government.
