Webinar: Feminist networks: advocacy built for endurance
Three experienced activists and peacebuilders shared key insights on how and why feminist networks play a key role in advocacy in our webinar “Leveraging feminist networks for advocacy”.
Insights into the network:
Networking for feminist peace
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.
The FCP network in brief:
Feminist Peace Initiative: Empowering Afghan women to play an active role in peacebuilding
In online training sessions, Afghan women peace activists strengthened their peacebuilding skills and built a network across several provinces of Afghanistan. We supported these training sessions as part of our Feminist Peace Initiatives.
Feminist Peace Initiatives: Sudan: Strengthening women-led organisations building peace
Two workshops for Sudanese women peacebuilders focused on strengthening their capacity to increase the visibility of their peace work and to advocate for their inclusion in peace processes. We supported these workshops with our Feminist Peace Initiatives.
Meeting in Asia: Network: "Our concerns are interconnected”
For two days, 17 peace activists from 10 Asian countries discussed similarities and differences in their approaches to peace work and feminist peacebuilding while strengthening solidarity across borders.
Feminist Peace Initiatives: Great Lakes: securing women‘s contribution to peacebuilding
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.
Lebanon: Building solidarity and networks in the midst of armed conflict
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.
Feminist Peace Initiatives: Belarusia: much needed conversations about peace
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.
Feminist Peace Initiatives: Genuine security and a culture of life
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.
Network roundtable: “I feel the energy. We all want peace.”
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.
