As the US election approaches and demands for racial justice and defunding the police continue to grow, a new feminist peace initiative led by Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, MADRE, and Women Cross DMZ has released A Vision for a Feminist Peace: Building a Movement-Driven Foreign Policy. This groundbreaking framework dramatically reimagines U.S. foreign policy built on intersectional feminist principles and driven by social movements. Read our shared powerful framework here. “As grassroots feminists, our movements are organizing to shift the business-as-usual failed policies of militarism and isolation. More than ever, there is an urgent need for U.S. foreign policy to be guided by an intersectional feminist model of peace building that centers collective care and wellbeing, climate resilience, self-determination, diplomacy and reparations to prioritize the lived realities of those who are most harmed by militarism,” said Cindy Wiesner, Executive Director of GGJ. Read our joint press release here.
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