Women, Peace and Security in Practice: Strengthening Participation, Protection and Local Action

This Berlin Summer Dialogue is a direct continuation of 2025's Berlin Summer Dialogue: Inclusive Peace: Resisting the Backlash, Strengthening Participation.

After Part I reflected on the progress and current challenges of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda, Part II will focus on practical implementation:

• What does it take in practice to strengthen the Women, Peace and Security agenda in fragile and conflict-affected contexts?
• How can German development cooperation better support women-led and local organisations working on peacebuilding, protection and responses to gender-based violence?
• What can be learned from contexts such as South Sudan about grassroots action, access to funding and the realities of implementation on the ground?
• How does anti-gender backlash affect women peacebuilders and civil society actors, and how can international partners respond more effectively?

The Berlin Summer Dialogue is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.