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The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom is the longest-operating and one of the most influential international women’s peace organization in the world. Created in 1915 by women from the suffrage, social work, and socialist movements with the goal to stop World War I, it now has members in over 40 national sections in all continents. Its headquarters are located in Geneva, Switzerland, and New York, United States. With consultative status first at the League of Nations and, since 1948, at the United Nations, it has engaged with and challenged the international governance system to advocate for total and universal disarmament, a system for the peaceful resolution of conflicts, the establishment of an economic system based on human needs, and women’s right to fully participate in peace processes as well as political institutions. It has been an important organization in the disarmament movement, creating its Reaching Critical Will program to offer feminist...
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Confortini, C.C. (2021). Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_103-1
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