In Africa as elsewhere around the world, security forces have been accused of using excessive force to impose COVID-19 lockdown measures, spreading fear and mistrust. This is how they play a more positive role, especially in countries already dealing with conflict.

Gender is key to ensuring responses to COVID-19 tackle the crisis and build long-term peace.

The Water, Peace and Security partnership has been awarded the 2020 Luxembourg Peace Prize for Outstanding Environmental Peace.

The CORE project is helping to challenge gender norms and stop women from being economically marginalised to being more empowerment, so that they too can play a part and a say in how peace is built in their communities.

The focus on young people is particularly to redefine the relationship of Rwandans through them. They are the future of the country and therefore, it is critical to detoxicate their generation of the disastrous beliefs of hatred that may have been acquired from their parents and prepare the next generation for a better future.

As the Women, Peace and Security Agenda celebrates twenty years, our high-level panel with Kvinna till Kvinna brought in to focus women peacebuilders working on the ground and how they can be supported in to the next decade.

Join us for a high-level dialogue organised in partnership with Kvinna till Kvinna at the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development 2020.

Over the past months Lebanon has faced an economic crisis, widespread protests, political upheaval and now COVID-19. We can see seven trends which are likely to influence peacebuilding prospects for the country.

As peacebuilders, our work is more critical than ever in helping to understand and respond to what are certainly going to be far-reaching impacts of COVID-19, as they play out in conflict-affected places.