What we do

IFOR's Women Peacemakers Program has been pioneering gender sensitive nonviolence training and development of educational materials on women and peacebuilding since 1997.

Since 2002 the WPP has provided training to approximately 1300 people during some 40 nonviolence trainings organised in over 24 countries, including Aceh, Afghanistan, Armenia, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor, Georgia, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Rwanda, Scotland, the USA and Zimbabwe.

Main Activities
The WPP, with a grant from the Netherland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organizes:

An annual training of women trainers in active nonviolence

Regional gender trainings for women and men

Active nonviolence trainings for women, with an emphasis on gender

Media trainings

Regional consultations for women from different sides of armed conflicts (2001 - 2005)

Exchange programs for women in peace organizations



Photos courtesy of WPP archives

The WPP supports networking and capacity building for women’s organizations, and works to engender peace movements. For more information on projects the WPP has supported, click here >

The WPP documents and analyzes women’s peacemaking efforts and strategies. For more information on WPP videos, publications, and other materials, click here >

The WPP conducts workshops on how women peacemakers can improve their use of the media for peace. For more information on the WPP media workshops, click here >

The WPP has incorporated the issue of masculinities in its work as a way to understand current gender dimensions in conflict and peace building, and as a way to confront gender injustice. For more information on a definition of gender equality, masculinities click here>