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Raising Women’s Voices is a series of blogs and videos highlighting the work of women peacebuilders from around the globe.

Male leaders discuss their work cultivating other men to advocate for Women, Peace and Security within multilateral institutions, government and civil society.

Ambassador Donald Steinberg’s prepared remarks as a panelist at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security Event Gender Equality in Peace and Security: The Role of Male Leadership.

The Women, Peace and Security agenda, as laid out by UN Security Council Resolution 1325, presents many opportunities to transform the peace and security sector. First and foremost, to make formal peacemaking and peacebuilding processes and structures more inclusive, effective, and responsive to the...

This Raising Women’s Voices video blog highlights the work of Sally Mboumien, one of OSF's Distinguished Partners for WPS.

Finding some sense of normalcy doesn’t mean going back to traditional views of national security. It is time to formalize a new vision of how we view security.

Recently OSF and the McCain Institute hosted a panel discussion on the incredible work women peacebuilders in Sudan did to oust former President, Omar al-Bashir, how they are working to create a more inclusive and democratic Sudan for the future, and challenges they face.

A short conversation with ISOA leaders on how to lead the security community in transforming how it approaches the Women, Peace and Security agenda (WPS).

Watch our discussion on how women shaped the revolution in Sudan, how they are fighting for a more inclusive Sudan, and how the international community can support these efforts.

This blog is a part of a series called Raising Women’s Voices highlighting the work of women peacebuilders from around the globe.

Raising Women’s Voices is a series of blogs and videos highlighting the work of women peacebuilders from around the globe.

This blog is part of a series of stories that came from Our Secure Future’s partner World Pulse, who assisted in collecting stories for the Women, Peace and Security Global Polling Project.

This blog is part of a series of stories that came from Our Secure Future’s partner World Pulse, who assisted in collecting stories for the Women, Peace and Security Global Polling Project. To view these results, click here.

Our Secure Future commissioned a poll of 1,500 registered voters in the U.S. to get a sense of how they view foreign policy decision-makers, whether they see themselves represented in that arena, and whether they consider themselves to be a feminist.