International Alert
International Alert, established in 1985, is an independent peacebuilding organisation working in over twenty countries and territories around the world. We work with people affected by violent conflict as well as at government, EU and UN levels to shape both policy and practice in building sustainable peace. Our regional work is based in the African Great Lakes, West Africa, the Caucasus, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Philippines. Our advocacy work is focused on business, humanitarian aid and development, gender, security and post-conflict reconstruction.
Alert's gender and peacebuilding work has evolved from our 1999 global campaign, Women Building Peace: From the Village Council to The Negotiating Table, that, together with over 200 NGOs successfully advocated for the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, unanimously adopted in October 2000. While we continue to monitor and advocate for the implementation of this groundbreaking resolution, our gender work has shifted its focus from women to a more inclusive approach addressing both women, peace and security issues and the impact of conflict dynamics on men, women, boys and girls.
In 2004, we collated the results of our Gender Peace Audit and Global Policy Advocacy projects into a resource, Inclusive Security: Sustainable Peace—A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action, that was jointly produced with Women Waging Peace. The Toolkit is a resource for peacebuilders and practitioners—particularly women—to engage in peace and security issues. Unpacking SCR 1325 from conflict prevention to security sector reform, it provides critical information, strategies and approaches and aims to bridge the divide between the realities of peace activists in conflict, post-conflict or transition areas, and international practitioners and policymakers.
International Alert
Contact: Karen Barnes, Senior Program Officer, Peacebuilding Issues Programme
Minna Lyytikainen, Programme Officer, Peacebuilding Issues Program
346 Clapham Road, London, SW9 9AP
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 207-627-6844 · Fax: +44 (0) 20-7627-6900
communications@international-alert.org
www.international-alert.org
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