The Women Peacemakers Program’s vision is of a world where women and men work together through gender-sensitive active nonviolence, to build communities where people co-exist peacefully.
Our mission is to transform conflict through gender-sensitive active nonviolence.
15 years after its establishment (1997), during October 2012, the Women Peacemakers Program became an independent, women-led organization, dedicated to advancing sustainable peace through gender-sensitive active nonviolence. The history of WPP is filled with ground-breaking work, which has been initiated and informed by our many pioneering network partners.
The Women Peacemakers Program is an activist organization that works for the nonviolent resolution of conflict, and the inclusion of women’s voice and leadership in nonviolent conflict resolution processes. Gender-sensitivity; Active Nonviolence; Community Building; and Innovation are important values that direct our work.
Meet the people behind the Women Peacemakers Program, including the Dutch Board Members, the International Advisory Council, WPP staff members, and WPP volunteers.
As a non-profit organization, the Women Peacemakers Program has been assigned the ANBI status by the Dutch Tax Agency. Please find here all necessary information regarding this status (in Dutch).
WPP values accountability as well as the right to privacy. Therefore, WPP will publish its project data compliant to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard, for its program “Powerful Agents of Change: Supporting Women’s Resilience for Prevention and Community Security” (September 2016 - December 2017). In this section WPP describes in the principles which guide the decision-making with regards to what to responsibly publish or not.
WPP is unique in using gender-sensitive active nonviolence (GSANV) as a lens to analyze conflict, as well as a strategy to address it. GSANV is a very powerful strategy to work for inclusive peace:
“The WPP initiative is slowly transforming behaviours in participants to support the nonviolent and peaceful management of conflicts, with deep respect for and appreciation of the contributions of women in peacebuilding.” – Netsai Mushonga, Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe
"The power of GSANV on community level needs to be more visible in peacebuilding. Incorporating women's role in this is crucial in order to achieve sustainable peace." - Raziq Fahim, College of Youth Activism and Development - Pakistan
