WCAPS Paper Trail - Breaking the “Bro Codes” of War: Women of Color Advancing Peace and Collective Security

Written by WCAPS member Sarah June Benjamin, Esq (International human rights attorney, peace innovator, and founder of Peace IQ), this piece explores the the dichotomy of awarding women of color for their peacekeeping efforts, whilst simultaneously preventing them from changing the system that allows for war to happen.

"...it is in the struggle of these noble women to wrest a definition of human security from a function of masculine militarism that we learn the value of peace and collective security in swiftly ending violence.”