We hope to create a substantial library of useful information here, relating to WILPF as well as the broader women’s and peace movements.
Disarmament
- Taniel Yusef of WILPF UK has written two new documents for the UK Campaign to Stop Killer Robots (UK CSKR) on behalf of the Tech Developers Group. These have been published November 2021 and are available through the links below. The Killer Robot Campaign is a network of UK-based organisations working toward a pre-emptive ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems. WILPF UK are part of the UK steering committee.
- The Lifecycle of Lethal/Autonomous Weapons Systems: Outstanding Technological Concerns. Meaningful Human Dignity Through Meaningful Human Control
- A Chart showing Outstanding Technical Issues as interacting with each phase of the following frameworks; The Lifecycle of a weapon system and NATO’s Joint Targeting Cycle
- Zero Carbon-Why Not Nuclear [online event]. Salisbury CND. 9 March 2021.
- Letter to the UK government: human dignity, responsibility and common ground on human control. 20 November 2020.
- United Kingdom Expert paper: The human role in autonomous warfare (CCW/GGE.1/2020/WP.6). 18 November 2020.
- The TPWN reaches 50 Ratifications. ICAN. 24 October 2020.
- Autonomous Weapons and Patriarchy. Ray Acheson. 2020.
- Autonomous Weapons and Gender-Based Violence. Ray Acheson. 2020.
- Resisting Nuclear Weapons Means Resisting Injustice and Oppression. Ray Acheson. 2 February 2018.
- WILPF member Rebecca Johnson writes about the historic UN vote to negotiate a Nuclear Ban Treaty in 2017. Rebecca Johnson. November 2016.
- WILPF report: Women in Artisanal Mines in DRC. Press Release. August 2016.
- Britain’s boycott of the UN multilateral nuclear disarmament talks. Rebecca Johnson, Open Democracy. 26 February 2016.
- Women, Weapons and War: A gendered critique of multilateral instruments. Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will. November 2015.
- Trading arms, bombing towns. Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will. October 2015.
- Gender-Based Violence and the Arms Trade Treaty. Ray Acheson and Mia Gandenberger. August 2015
- Assuring Destruction: 2015 edition. Status of the United Kingdom’s nuclear forces. John Ainslie and Reaching Critical Will. April 2015.
- What it takes for peace – An interview with Edith Ballantyne. Green Agenda. February 2015.
- Filling The Gap – Report on the Third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons. Reaching Critical Will. December 2014.
- A Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons – Developing a legal framework for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. Joint paper. Reaching Critical Will and Article 36. December 2014.
- Banning Nuclear Weapons: an effective measure for disarmament. Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will. November 2014.
- Banning Nuclear Weapons: an effective measure for disarmament. WILPF International: Reaching Critical Will. October 2014.
- You Get What You Pay For. WILPF International. 18 September 2014
- An alternative history of peacemaking: a century of disarmament efforts. Rebecca Johnson. 4 August 2014. Open Democracy
- None of the UN Experts Debating Killer Robots are Women. motherboard.vice.com. 14 May 2014
Women, Peace and Security
- Achieving Gender Equality + Empowering all Women and Girls: Promoting SDG 5 in a Covid World Webinar. Civil Service College. 8 March 2021.
- Women Human Rights Defenders: Left behind in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Amy Dwyer, Centre for Women, Peace and Security, LSE. 10 December 2020.
- The legacy of the Tokyo Women’s Tribunal. The Gendered Peace Project. London School of Economics. December 2020.
- WILPF Colombia has written an article on Abortion Rights as part of the Edinburgh World Justice Festival. Monica Montañez Martínez, WILPF Colombia. 2018.
- Violations against women in Syria and the disproportionate impact of the conflict on them. June 2016
- Dangerous Women project. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Feature on Chrystal Macmillan by Helen Kay, Scottish Branch, UK WILPF.
- Shadow Report Assessing UK Government action on Women, Peace and Security. Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS). 2015
- A study of women’s peace activism in Syria. The Badael Foundation. December 2015
- A Call to Action on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: A report on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 and Related Resolutions. Commissioned by the Human Rights Foundation. September 2015
- Masculine violence: call of duty, or call for change? Cynthia Cockburn. 27 November 2014. Open Democracy
- Women peacebuilders: transforming the system from the inside out? Catia Confortini. Open Democracy. 20 November 2014
- Women and Armed Conflict – 20 years after Beijing. WILPF International. 14 November 2014
- Gaza: It is happening again… Where are the women? Madeleine Rees. 15 August 2014
- Political economy, security, and the summit to end sexual violence in conflict. Madeleine Rees. Open Democracy. 14 July 2014
- We have gender mainstreamed so well we can’t even see it anymore. Madeleine Rees. OSCE interview. 2014
- Political economy, security, and the summit to end sexual violence in conflict. Madeleine Rees. Open Democracy. 14 July 2014
- Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. 10-13 June 2014.
- Chair’s summary
- International Protocol on the documentation and investigation of sexual violence in conflict
- Seeking Accountability and Demanding Change: a report on women’s human rights violations in Syria before and during the conflict. Madre. July 2014
- Foreign Office blog
- Article by Lorraine Mirham, UK WILPF’s International Board Member and International Vice President. June 2014
- Sexual violence, access to justice, and human rights. Madeleine Rees. Open Democracy. 9 June 2014
- Report from Sarajevo Peace Event. Helen Kay. 6-9 June 2014
- The Heart of the Matter: the Security of Women and the Security of States. International Security, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Winter 2008/09), pp. 7–45.
Environment
- Women, War and Climate Change. Claire Duncanson and Carol Cohn. War Resisters’ International. December 2020.
- Women, War and Climate Crisis. Claire Duncanson, Yasmin Luqman and Niamh McNulty speaking at the Scottish WILPF event as part of the Edinburgh World Justice Festival 2020. 14 October 2020.
- Extinction Rebellion leaflets and posters can be found here.
- Global Witness report: River of Gold. July 2016.
General
- Global Rally for a People’s Vaccine. Global Justice Now. 10 March 2021.
- Million Women Rise and the UK End VAW Coalition. London Vigil. 25 November 2020.
- COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker. UNDP and UN Women.
- A collection of comprehensive resources on Feminist Responses to COVID-19 from the Gender & Development Network (GADN)
- UN System Analysis during COVID-19. WILPF International. 2020.
- The UN: are development and peace empty words? Ray Acheson and Rebecca Johnson. Open Democracy. 24 September 2015
- Faultlines, refugees and the law. Madeleine Rees. Open Democracy. 27 September 2015
- Mobilising for peace and freedom: from aspiration to lasting change. Madeleine Rees. Open Democracy. 28 August 2015
- The World Must Act to Stop Syria’s Suffering. Laila Alodaat, Crisis response programme manager, WILPF and others. Guardian, 20 August
- A new narrative on human rights, security and prosperity. Jennifer Allsopp. Open Democracy. 28 April 2015
- Progress of the World’s Women 2015 – 2016: Transforming economies, Realizing Rights. UN Women. April 2015
- Fascism, Refugees, Statelessness, and Rosika Schwimmer. Dagmar Wernitznig. 2014
- How we can change the narrative of conflict. Madeleine Rees. Speech at Bradford University. 26 October 2014
- Guerilla woolfare: against the madness of mutually assured destruction. Rebecca Johnson and Jaine Rose. 8 August 2014. Open Democracy
- Raise your knitting high (protest song)
- Executed: what were the principles for which Edith Cavell lived and died. Cynthia Cockburn. 4 August 2014
- Speech by Manchester Councillor Margaret Ashton. Script adapted by Lydia Merrill. 4 August 2014
- The holistic approach to peacebuilding: from hubris to practicalities. Madeleine Rees. 5 May 2014. Open Democracy
- Opposing World War One: Courage and Conscience. An information briefing about conscientious objection and peace activism in the First World War. Published in partnership in 2013
WILPF Archives
- WILPF Theory of Change
- WILPF Congress Report 2015
- WILPF and me. Martha Jean Baker. 25 August 2014
- Isabella Ford and WIL during WWI. Professor June Hannam. May 2014
- Women’s power to stop war: hubris or hope? Cynthia Cockburn. 28 April 2014. Open Democracy
- How WILPF started. Helen Kay. March 2013
- Stories by Mary Alys, one of UK WILPF’s longest-serving members
- Stanford Library’s Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Collection