Speaking Topics
- Women building peace: What they do, why it matters
- Women’s contributions to conflict prevention, peace processes and governance
- Women and war
- Gender-based violence
- UN Security Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace & Security
As Founder and CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE has over two decades of experience as a peace strategist working globally on conflicts, crises, violent extremism and peacebuilding with civil society, governments and the UN.
Through ICAN, she spearheads the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) comprising independent women-led organizations active in 40 countries globally, preventing violence and promoting peace, rights and pluralism. Under her leadership, ICAN has developed the multi-donor Innovative Peace Fund (IPF) to channel resources to local women-led peacebuilding organizations. Since its inception the fund has committed $7,000,000 across 25 countries. ICAN’s Better Peace Initiative (BPI) is also a flagship program providing strategic guidance, practical tools and capacity development for UN, governments, and civil society on best practices in inclusive design and gender responsiveness in peace processes.
From 2020 to September 2022, Ms. Naraghi Anderlini served as Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Centre for Women, Peace and Security, working to deepen links between scholarship, policy and practice in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, and introducing the network of Women Mediators Across the Commonwealth (WMC) to the Centre.
Sanam on the Gendered Dimensions of Conflict
What Hosts are Saying
[Sanam] combines her many years of dedicated action with inspiring stories of hope, bringing the lives and hopeful energy of peacemakers to life for her audience. In a time of confusion and conflict, Sanam’s dynamism is an antidote to despair.
— Karin Ryan, The Carter Center