Human Rights, Conflict Prevention, Peacekeeping & Peacemaking

Asha Asokan, Co-Chair
Human Rights Advocate & Peace and Security Policy Specialist

Ona Wang, Co-Chair
Researcher, Writer, and Organizer for Conflict Transformation and Justice

Outreach and Program Coordinator - Vacant

Events Coordinator - Vacant

Communications Liaison - Vacant

Mission

The Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS) Conflict Prevention, Peacekeeping and Peacemaking Working Group (Peacemaking Working Group) aims to ensure women of color play a meaningful role and have a voice in conflict prevention and reconciliation, human security, peacebuilding, and peacekeeping in the US and abroad. 

Purpose

As a working group, we achieve our mission through dialogues, advocacy, community and civil society engagement, public events, campaigns, education and training, and issue policy papers

Goals

  1. Amplify women of color perspectives and voices related to issues of peace including the various conceptions of and approaches to peace; global peacekeeping operations; potential triggers for armed and structural violence and conflict; and the creation of conditions for positive and sustainable global peace. 

  2. Focus on peacemaking strategies which enable equitable power relationships to discourage future conflicts and address transnational, structural, and gender-based violence. 

  3. Encourage coordination and collaboration among women of color working in the peacebuilding, conflict resolution and reconciliation field.

Past Events

Webinars

Shaping the Field: The Peace Corps and Peacebuilding Through a Diversity Lens