Welcome to African Women Peace and Security Institute
Creating a peaceful and secure Africa where women play a central role in conflict prevention, mediation, and peace-building.
"SHE LEADS PEACE"
The African Women Peace and Security Institute (AWPSI) envisions a peaceful and secure Africa where women play a central role in conflict prevention, mediation, and peace-building processes.
About Us
Empowering Women For a peaceful future
empower women as effective peace negotiators, catalysts for positive change, and advocates for gender equality and inclusivity in all aspects of peace and security as well as post-conflict reconstruction;
Core Programmes
- Research and Publications
- Trainings and Workshops
- Empowering Women as Peace Negotiators
- Peace Education
Contact Us
Become our Member & get training and workshop schedule
The interactive workshops aim to facilitate the necessary lessons and allow adequate opportunities to dialogue and build trust as women would come from different backgrounds to learn from each other and share experiences.
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News and Blogs
Strengthening Ethiopia’s WPS Agenda
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 (UNSC 1325), in October 2000. The resolution, by universally acknowledging the role women can play in peacemaking, highlighted the disproportionate and unique impact of armed conflict on women and girls. It also reaffirms the essential role played by women in conflict prevention, conflict resolution and peace-building. In the past 22 years, nine additional resolutions were adopted by the UNSC on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), now being championed by all member states.
