Partners:
As a global feminist network organisation, our partners in Switzerland and abroad form an indispensable part of our work.
Together with organisations that share the same values and pursue similar goals, we implement our programmes and carry out joint projects and campaigns . They are part of our growing network of committed women's and peace organisations.
We make a distinction between project partners, cooperation partners and funding partners.
Women
Agency
Peace process
Decolonialism
By “women” we mean people who identify as female, including trans, inter and cis women. In addition, we stress the need to include the voices and experiences of people who were socialised or are on occasion perceived as women, such as trans men, nonbinary and agender people.
Agency is the human capacity to act and to choose what actions to take to effect change. We use the term “creative agency” to describe the capacity to push against conventional boundaries of gender, question socially assigned roles for women or men and to open new possibilities for engagement. We use the term "creative agency" to highlight the innovative ways in which women (and men) act to change societal norms.
Sources: Anthony Giddens, The Constitution of Society; Cambridge Dictionary; Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Gendering Agency in Transitional Justice (2015)
A peace process is the sum of all steps, initiatives and actions of formal and informal peacebuilding that strive for transformative structural change by tackling the root causes of conflict and violence before, during and after armed conflict. A peace process is seldom linear: it takes place in stages or phases that often overlap, without a clear timetable. A peace process is more like a puzzle made up of several successive small steps than a large, meticulously planned attempt to end a conflict based on a manual. At any stage it can go off track – even after a peace agreement has been signed – and suffer setbacks.
See: https://1000peacewomen.org/en/focus-areas/peace-processes
Decolonialism (as well as decolonisation) in international cooperation, humanitarian aid and peacebuilding refers to the deconstruction and dismantling of colonial and neocolonial ideologies, which regard the way in which the Global North thinks and evaluates knowledge as superior. The aim is the redistribution of power and resources that were not only accumulated by colonial powers during the colonial era – and from which they continue to benefit and which they continue to expand to this day. Furthermore, decolonialism aims to highlight and overcome the attitudes and patterns of behaviour that became entrenched during the colonial era. From the perspective of critics of colonialism – a position we share – decolonialism encompasses both a critical perspective and a practice that challenges the enduring legacy of colonial power in knowledge, politics and peacebuilding. Decolonialism and decolonisation call for the dismantling of dominant Western structures that marginalise local, indigenous and feminist knowledge and power. Instead, decolonialism centres the voices, experiences and leadership of those most affected by violent conflict and historical oppression.
PeaceWomen Across the Globe regards decolonialism as both a critical lens and a practice that challenge the ongoing legacies of colonial power in knowledge, politics and peacebuilding. It calls for dismantling dominant Western frameworks that marginalise local, indigenous and feminist knowledge and power. Instead, decolonialism centres the voices, experiences and leadership of those most affected by violent conflict and historical oppression.
Sources: Peace Direct: Race, Power and Peacebuilding, 2022; PeaceWomen Across the Globe "Guiding principles for decolonial peacebuilding", 2025.