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Abstract or Description

This policy brief is drawn from the 2025 annual Women Waging Peace report, which serves as a guide for policymakers and funders and draws directly from the recommendations and priorities of women peacebuilders around the world. These findings have been provided by peacebuilders across countries, conflict contexts, types of peacebuilding work, and across age, sexual orientation, education level, disability and migration status. This report leveraged the perspectives and experiences of 106 women peacebuilders from 43 countries to identify peacebuilding priorities for 2025, reflect on the challenges and achievements of 2024, and provide the following recommendations for how international partners can better support women peacebuilders engaged in preventing and mitigating election violence.

2025 marks the 25th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the creation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. The Women Waging Peace network, which was created in 1999, has supported women peacebuilders around the world as they work to create more peaceful and equitable societies over the same time. The members of the network are implementing Women, Peace and Security priorities in their communities, advocating for gender equality and gender-responsive solutions to violence. This report shows the reality of their work: even after 25 years of the WPS agenda, they feel frustrated with formal WPS policies and programming, they consistently face threats to their safety and they believe that ensuring gender equality and preventing gender-based violence are fundamental to building peace.

Publication Date

10-2025

Document Type

Report

Keywords

Women Peace and Security, peacebuilding, women, WPS

Disciplines

Peace and Conflict Studies

25 years of the Women, Peace and Security agenda and the reality of women-led peacebuilding

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