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Gender equality is key to conflict resolution and decreasing the probability of violence. : Michael Joiner, 360info CC BY 4.0

Women face specific and systematic gender-based issues in conflict situations. The challenge is how to empower more women in the peacebuilding process.

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International Women's Day

Women on the frontline of peace

Women face specific and systematic gender-based issues in conflict situations. The challenge is how to empower more women in the peacebuilding process.

Society
Peace Café, a student-led platform by the Centre for Peace and Justice at BRAC University and UN Women Bangladesh has been empowering its members, especially young women students to promote peace, social cohesion, diversity, plurality, inclusivity, tolerance, and non-discrimination. : Photo provided by Peace Cafe

Can Afghan and Syrian women ever be involved in the peace process or will it remain a pipe dream?

International Women's Day

How patriarchal mindset prevents women in peace efforts

Can Afghan and Syrian women ever be involved in the peace process or will it remain a pipe dream?

Education
Many have worked to raise the political profile for Myanmar at a more local level, through protests or by mobilising diaspora networks for assistance. : Saw Wunna (Unsplash) Unsplash License

Refugee women are crucial to building peace in Myanmar. Yet their experience has rarely been valued.

International Women's Day

Why including refugees in peacebuilding matters

Refugee women are crucial to building peace in Myanmar. Yet their experience has rarely been valued.

Conflict
Food assistance during emergencies is neither culturally competent nor geographically targeted. : Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia Commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Free_Food_Distribution_-_Gangasagar_Fair_Transit_Camp_-_Kolkata_2012-01-14_0613.JPG CC BY 3.0

Modifying traditional foods for disaster-prone states in India can ensure adequate nutrition for people most in need.

Affordable nutrition

Food aid can be food wasted

Society
After four decades of brutal war, the link between climate change and conflict is not as clear in any other country as it is in Afghanistan. : US Air Force/Staff Sgt. Stacey Haga, Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/28650594@N03/5333327810 CC BY 2.0

Afghanistan is facing a perfect storm of threats, and climate change is pushing it to breaking point. The world seems unaware of the coming catastrophe.

International Migrant's Day

Afghan crisis is a migration crisis

Conflict
Tens of thousands of migrants have died at sea. : PxHere CC0 Public Domain

Death is likelier than ever for migrants who travel across the high seas. And yet they persist.

International Migrants Day

Risking death to cross the Bay of Bengal

Conflict
Satellite image of a refugee camp taken in 2016. : Planet Labs, Inc. Wikimedia Commons.

As technology improves, satellite-imagery based applications could help deliver faster humanitarian responses.

Eyes in the wartime sky

Eyes in the sky can change the way we help refugees

Human Interest