Reaching a Durable Peace in Afghanistan and Iraq
USIP recently partnered with New America to convene roundtable discussions with government, civil society, and humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding organizations to learn from the past decade of women’s programming in fragile states such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Based on these discussions, this report provides guidance for improving future programming to not only integrate the needs of women but also recognize the role women play in transforming violent conflict and sustaining a durable peace.
About the Report
This report provides guidance to improve future peacebuilding and development programming and encourage transformational change by addressing gender dynamics at the community level. Lessons from women’s programming in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade were distilled to identify barriers and challenges to the effective implementation of the global Women, Peace, and Security agenda as well as to provide recommendations for future work.
About the Author(s)
Following his career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Ambassador Steven E. Steiner served as an advisor to the United States Institute of Peace, with a focus on the integration of gender perspectives in peacebuilding. Danielle Robertson is the senior gender specialist in the Policy, Learning, and Strategy Center at USIP, where she develops tools and facilitates trainings on gender inclusion in peacebuilding.