“WePeace” and Women Peacekeeping in the Philippines

Authors

Arlyssa Bianca Pabotoy, Miriam College

Abstract

The “Women’s Agency in Keeping the Peace, Promoting Security” or “WePeace” is an initiative to capacitate selected community women in the Philippines on gender-responsive peacemaking and peacekeeping. This essay describes how the project has helped form women peacekeeping teams and enabled women’s increased participation in existing peacekeeping mechanisms. The community women are from four different areas in the country facing different conflict lines: tribal wars, clan wars or “rido”, internal displacement, and development aggression.

Recommended Citation

Pabotoy, Arlyssa Bianca (2021) "“WePeace” and Women Peacekeeping in the Philippines," The Journal of Social Encounters: Vol. 5: Iss. 2, 66-76.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/social_encounters/vol5/iss2/7