Resource Library

This practitioner-friendly compendium of resources is designed for international mediation and peacebuilding practitioners – including mediators, facilitators, civil society organisations (CSOs), donors and policy actors who wish to achieve lasting peace process outcomes by increasing women’s meaningful participation in peace and political settlement processes. It brings together the most effective and up-to-date strategies from over 90 publications by practitioners from all over the world – particularly Global Majority authors.

These strategies cover a range of themes, including the design and implementation of peace processes, mediation networks, international Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) policy frameworks, climate and digital peacebuilding, masculinities, strategic litigation, working with faith actors, gender-disaggregated data and feminist storytelling to engage in evidence-based policy.

The European Institute of Peace has identified and analysed practices and strategies that have been used to overcome the persistent obstacles to women’s participation as part of its Breaking Barriers, Making Peace project supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. This project has generated the “Status Quo or Bold Adaptation? Reclaiming the Women, Peace and Security Agenda” report, a policy brief, and three accompanying background papers entitled “Confronting the Exclusion of Women in Ethiopia’s Peace Processes”, “Navigating Barriers to Women’s Participation in Policy Spaces Intersecting with Environmental Peacebuilding in Myanmar” and “Reclaiming the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Sudan”.