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Peace: We Build It!

What are current challenges facing the peacebuilding community and the new opportunities, initiatives, and insights offered by leading organizations working towards peace? As violent conflict increases around the world and the COVID-19 pandemic continues to exacerbate instability and insecurity in conflict affected and fragile states, The Peace: We Build It! podcast is exploring innovative peace-centered approaches to addressing these global issues. Join host Tanya Domi, Senior Fellow for Communications and Peacebuilding at the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) as she speaks with inspiring thought leaders, global partners, local peacebuilders, and expert guests on the work they're doing to build peace. Brought to you by the Alliance for Peacebuilding.

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Peace: We Build It!

Why WPS? The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda Can Change the World

April 01, 2021 • Alliance for Peacebuilding • Season 1 • Episode 2

In this second episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, AfP’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, Megan Corrado, and Dr. Shirley Graham, Director of the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs and Associate Professor with George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, sits down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss the progress of and challenges facing the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda 20 years after passage of the landmark United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and how women’s meaningful inclusion in peacebuilding is vital to international security and development.

The episode also explores how implementation of the WPS Act can help the U.S. emerge as a “gender superpower”—exercised through a feminist foreign policy and commitment to the empowerment of women, gender minorities, and other marginalized populations.

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