Publications & reports

Publications

Canada’s National Action Plan on WPS

WPS at 25 and Canada’s CNAP3: Feminist Reflections on Progress and Gaps (November 2025)

“Foundations for Peace” in Turbulent Times: Analysis of Canada’s Third National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (June 2024)

Fostering Feminist Peace At Home: Implications for CNAP3 (July 2023)

Reporting on Progress: Reflections on the Latest CNAP Report (September 2021)

Reflection on Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security: Gains, Gaps & Goals (March 2021)

Women, Peace & Security in the Age of Feminist Foreign Policy: Reflections on Canada’s New National Action Plan (August 2018)

Looking Back, Looking Forward:  Reflections on Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (December 2015)

Worth the Wait? Reflections on Canada’s National Action Plan & Reports on Women, Peace and Security (May 2014)

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What’s in a NAP? A short analysis of selected Women, Peace & Security National Action Plans (January 2017)

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From WPSN-C working groups

Palestine is a Canadian Women, Peace and Security Issue: Obligations and Opportunities (Palestine Working Group of WPSN-C), October 2024

Reports

WPS Advisory Group reports

February 2023 Meeting

February 2022 Meeting: Using Feminist Evaluation Methods in WPS Contexts

December 2021 Emerging Issues Meeting

September 2021 Meeting

December 2020 Meeting

November 2020 Disarmament Meeting

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Briefs and submissions

Brief submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs for their study on the
Experience of Women Veterans by the WPSN-C (December 2023)

CNAP Ministerial (June 2021): WPSN-C remarks

Inputs in the ‘Elsie Initiative’ from the Women, Peace and Security Network-Canada (December 21 2017)

Gender Perspectives and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Canada’s Defence Policy – A Submission to the Defence Policy Review by the WPSN-C (June 30, 2016)

Brief presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development for their study on Women, Peace and Security; Prepared by the Women, Peace and Security Network‐Canada (April 28, 2016)

Response of the Women, Peace and Security Network-Canada (WPSN-C) to the Report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development: An Opportunity for Global Leadership: Canada and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda (October 2016)

Submission by the Women, Peace and Security Network‐Canada to the Global Affairs Canada International Assistance Review (June 29, 2016)