future now”

Types of peacebuilding
activities by region
Number of peacebuilding
projects in that area.
ALEPPO
Combating child recruitment
Literacy workshops as gateways to communicate
with women and raise their
awareness of the serious implications
to their children if they are recruited to
armed groups. This tactic was adopted
by the women activists after they
encountered a great deal of resistance
when directly addressing the issue, as
the participating mothers believed their
children’s engagement in the fighting
was important to defend their homeland.
Promoting civil peace and co-existence
Awareness-raising sessions and the
publishing of a newspaper on issues like
peaceful conflict resolution mechanisms.
IDLEB
Raising awareness of women’s rights
and roles in society
Addressing issues related to women’s rights
to emphasize women’s roles in society.
Activities include economic, political and
educational empowerment projects.
Idleb
Aleppo
6 6
Enhancing women’s roles in peacebuilding
through political empowerment
Raising women’s awareness of numerous political
issues including democracy, corruption,
transitional justice and women’s political
participation. In their approach to discussing
democracy, the women groups held discussions
to show links between Islamic principles
like Shura * and democracy.
Promoting co-existence
When organizing craft workshops and other
programmes aimed at building trust among
women, ideas of tolerance and co-existence
were also indirectly addressed.
Controlling existing and potential violence
For example, a campaign organized and implemented
in the Atmeh IDP camp took a stand
against the use and spread of small arms.
* The principle of consultation in Islam.
DARAA
Only one group worked on peacebuilding.
However, that group carried out a great number
of activities with this particular focus,
mainly through:
Promoting women’s political empowerment
Enhancing women’s abilities and leadership
capabilities to increase their involvement in
the political process and provide them with
the tools to be more efficient on the political
level. Holding awareness and consultation
sessions conducted over Resolution 1325 to
identify its adaptation to the Syrian case and
activate women’s roles in peacebuilding.
LEBANON
Damascus
Daraa
2
20
JORDAN
22
DAMASCUS AND
ITS COUNTRYSIDE
Raising societal awareness of
women’s rights and roles in society
Workshops, training, information leaflets
and dialogues are used to address these
themes.
Engendering the constitution
Raising awareness of the issue and its
importance as a step towards a future
Syria where women’s rights are addressed
in laws and constitution. Some
of the involved women’s groups have also
produced documents illustrating what an
engendered constitution should look like.
Transitional justice mechanisms
Several non-judicial programmes and
projects, including organizing hearing
sessions for sexual assault survivors and
witnesses. Even though the hearing sessions,
for safety and witness protection
considerations, focused on examples
from another country, the activity itself
was unique in addressing this extremely
culturally sensitive issue while the war is
still going on.
Political empowerment
Enhancing women’s political empowerment
in order to increase their involvement
in the peacebuilding process and
participation in advocacy campaigns
to support a political solution to the
war through negotiations based on the
Geneva I Communiqué.