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Twenty-five years after UN Security Council Resolution 1325, women in conflict-affected regions continue to push the Women, Peace and Security agenda from policy into practice. This piece reflects on progress and persistent barriers through insights from women peacebuilders in Central Asia, Kenya, Somalia, and Yemen.
17 December 2025
The ambitions of the WPS agenda remain constrained by fragmented implementation and limited support for women’s rights organisations (WROs), alongside a larger global rollback on gender equality. Amid this, it is outcomes from projects like Resourcing Change – which provided flexible, core funding that recognised women-led organisations as essential peacebuilders – that provide a useful counterpoint.
27 November 2025
Despite growing recognition of the links between climate action, peace and justice, COP30 has sidelined these issues at a time when they are most needed. This piece explores why ignoring peace in climate policy undermines global action, and highlights the voices demanding more inclusive and accountable COP processes.
14 November 2025
Following the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) recent capture of El Fashir in North Darfur – a city under merciless siege for the last 18 months – the humanitarian situation has deteriorated sharply, marked by mass killings, forced displacement, and the collapse of the few remaining essential services. Urgent international action is needed to protect those trapped and fleeing amid worsening violence, hunger, and disease.
3 November 2025
We know that the colonial foundations of Western-led peacebuilding are being profoundly challenged. The frameworks and institutions that once defined how peacebuilding “should” happen – from international advocacy to human rights mechanisms – are being questioned for their relevance, legitimacy, and connection to peoples’ lived realities.
24 October 2025
A new motion on conflict-sensitive conservation at the 2025 World Conservation Congress marks growing recognition of how peace, security, and nature are deeply interconnected. This piece explores why conflict sensitivity matters for conservation globally and highlights lessons from South Sudan — where practical approaches are helping conservation practitioners work more inclusively and sustainably in complex, conflict-affected contexts.
15 October 2025
Making sure civil society partners receive a fair share of overheads in every project is critical to building strong partnerships. But how many INGOs are actually doing this? In this blog post, Saferworld's Sara Torrelles Vives explores equitable partnership.
6 October 2025
In Saferworld’s latest publication, we set out to answer whether the UN’s counter-terrorism architecture has grown in proportion to security threats, or whether a process of threat inflation has led to the exaggeration of the issue of 'terrorism' to aid institutional growth. Here, the two authors, Jordan Street, Head of Saferworld’s US/UN Program, and Ali Altiok, Peace Studies & Political Science Doctoral Candidate, University of Notre Dame, explain what they found in their research.
2 October 2025
Saferworld strongly condemns the horrific killing of women’s activist Iftehan Al-Mashahri in Taiz, Yemen, on 18 September 2025.
22 September 2025
Saferworld's CEO Susana Klien reflects on International Peace Day
21 September 2025