Our Vision

We see human and cultural diversity as a strength. We are committed to celebrating people in all their diversity and working together with sorority, empathy, curiosity, understanding and inclusivity by creating spaces for learning, interaction and reconciliation.

We recognise that people experience different types of oppression that often intersect and reinforce one another, including violence and discrimination based on gender, race, social class, sexuality, physical ability and other traits. We are committed to having our actions informed by gender analysis that takes this intersectionality into account.

We work to build peace-enhancing processes that redefine power by seeking to create empowering and collective relationships (“power with”) instead of dominating and hierarchical ones (“power over”).

We centre the leadership, voices and experiences of women and others who are directly impacted by violence, conflict and other manifestations of oppressive systems. We recognise that lived experience allows us to identify and advocate for solutions to challenges, with the support and solidarity of the movement.

We are curious, and engage in a constant exchange of diverse knowledge and information. We are committed to building shared knowledge about the root causes of violence and conflict in all their forms, and we are dedicated to constantly educating ourselves as we strive to strengthen, grow and evolve our movement.

We work collaboratively and in solidarity all across the WILPF movement, and in partnership with other individuals and organisations who align with our vision in the larger movement for peace. Through our holistic, grassroots approach to movement building, we strive to ensure that all people can fully participate.