Women Peacemakers Program (WPP).

Alkmaar, Holland.

Worldwide.

The Women Peacemakers Program has been pioneering gender sensitive nonviolence training and development of educational materials on women and peacebuilding since 1997.

Since 2002 the WPP has provided training to approximately 1300 people during some 40 nonviolence trainings organised in over 24 countries, including Aceh, Afghanistan, Armenia, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor, Georgia, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Rwanda, Scotland, the USA and Zimbabwe.

Main Activities:

• The WPP, with a grant from the Netherland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organizes:
• An annual training of women trainers in active nonviolence
• Regional gender trainings for women and man
• Active nonviolence trainings for women, with an emphasis on gender
• Media trainings
• Regional consultations for women from different sides of armed conflicts (2001 - 2005)
• Exchange programs for women in peace organizations

Gender mainstreaming, gender and security.

Not specified.

Short courses and workshops.

Not specified.

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