The Women, Peace and Security Network – Canada (WPSN-C)’s latest publication “Foundations for Peace in Turbulent Times: Analysis of Canada’s Third National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security” provides analysis, reflections and recommendations to actualize the new Action Plan, covering a range of topics, from climate change to 2SLGBTQI+ to displacement to women Veterans, offering analysis of the CNAP3 and its department implementation plans.

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Foundations for Peace in Turbulent Times: Analysis of Canada’s third National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security is edited by Bénédicte Santoire, Katrina Leclerc and Beth Woroniuk.

The publication’s chapters are:

  • “Foundations for Peace“: Responding to the Call for a ‘Radical Change in Direction’ in the WPS Agenda? (Beth Woroniuk)
  • Climate, Conflict and Displacement (Canadian Red Cross)
  • A Climate of Vulnerability: Fossil Fuel Extraction and Carbon-Intensive Militarism Threaten Women, Peace and Security (Tamara Lorincz)
  • Canada’s NAP and the Women of Gaza (Marisa Consolata Kemper)
  • CNAP’s Newest Partner: Veterans Affairs Canada (Laura Sewell and Women Veterans Research and Engagement Network (WREN))
  • Defence Commitments to WPS: Policy Coherence, the Domestic Agenda, and Including Men (Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic)
  • CNAP3: Where are Young People? Opportunities to lead on Youth, Peace & Security (Katrina Leclerc and Shayne Wong)
  • Queering Peace and Security: 2SLGBTQI+ Reflections on Canada’s Third National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (Alexandria Bohémier)
  • Empowering Women Mediators: Catalysts for Peace and Security (Sophia Papastavrou)
  • Closing the Gap Between Image and Action: Humanitarian Disarmament and the CNAP3 (Gillian Flude)
  • What’s Tech Got to Do with It? Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence as a Women, Peace and Security Issue in the CNAP3 (Jessica Cadesky)
  • How Can Canada’s NAP on WPS Address Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Against Rohingya Women and Girls? (Deeplina Banerjee)