Domestic Organizations and Resources
Challenging Militarism: Feminist Activism and Scholarship, Mills College
This roundtable discussion and public debate features international activists and scholars from Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Korea, and the U.S. in discussion with Bay Area activists, philanthropic and scholarly communities.

Peace and Solidarity Program of the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC)
WCRC's Peace and Solidarity Program raises the voices of women of color in opposition to war and militarism. The program focuses on the gender and race dimensions of war, militarism and empire building. WCRC educates and mobilizes women of color as participants and leaders in the global effort to build a world at peace.

Women and Militarism exhibit at the Barnard Center for Research on Women
This exhibit highlights some of the linkages between women's activism and protest against war and militarism from a wide range of contexts—from anti-nuclear activism in the United Kingdom, to movements for peace and human rights in El Salvador, to freedom from U.S. imperialism in Japan and many more global efforts to draw attention to and organize around anti-war and antimilitarism causes.

International Organizations and Resources
Feminist Institute, Project on Peace and Security Policy
The Feminist Institute is “A Space for Feminist Thought and Politics in the Heinrich Boll Foundation.”Since 2001, the Feminist Institute has concentrated on examining the topics of peace and security policy and conflict from a feminist perspective.

Gender Equality Focus of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
OCHA is committed to achieving gender equality in all aspects of humanitarian assistance.  They strive to eliminate the causes of gender inequality that often undermine the ability of women and girls to be active partners in all activities related to humanitarian assistance.  The website includes information on OCHA’s Gender Action plans, as well as related presentations and conference reports.

Gender and Security Program, UN Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
The Gender and Security Program supports a wide range of projects at the nexus of gender, crisis, and peace-building. They engage researchers, policy shapers, and policy practitioners across disciplines and communities of practice by supporting international collaborations and south-south-north partnerships. The program also provides fellowships, commissions research, and carries out program evaluations and policy analyses.  The UN has commissioned the SSRC's Gender and Security Program to conceptualize, incubate, and make operational a new global initiative to provide intellectual leadership and strengthen research and capacity in the field of gender and security.

Women in Black
Women in Black is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence. As women experiencing these things in different ways in different regions of the world, they support each other’s movements. An important focus is challenging the militarist policies of their own governments. They are not an organization, but a means of communicating and a formula for action.

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) with national sections, covering all continents with an international secretariat based in Geneva, and a New York office focused on the work of the United Nations.  Since its establishment in 1915, WILPF has brought together women from around the world who are united in working for peace by non-violent means, promoting political, economic and social justice for all. WILPF’s PeaceWomen Project monitors and works toward rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.

WomenWarPeace.org, UNIFEM
UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations, dedicated to advancing women’s rights and achieving gender equality. UNIFEM’s webportal, WomenWarPeace.org, provides information to encourage researchers, policy makers, analysts and NGOs so they can routinely include, seek and contribute more information and analysis on women, war and peace. Through its portal, UNIFEM strives to provide access to the information and analysis that is currently available on the impact of armed conflict on women and women's role in peace-building.

We invite organizations and programs from around the world with a gender and science component to send us your web address so that we can link to your site. Please contact Linda Baker at linda.baker@berkeley.edu or Charis Thompson at charis.thompson@gmail.com

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