{"id":62830,"date":"2026-06-02T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icip.cat\/la-plataforma-de-dones-per-a-la-pau-a-casamance-premi-icip-construccio-de-pau-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:15:02","slug":"the-womens-platform-for-peace-in-casamance-icip-peace-in-progress-award-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icip.cat\/en\/the-womens-platform-for-peace-in-casamance-icip-peace-in-progress-award-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Women’s Platform for Peace in Casamance, ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ICIP Governing Board has decided to award the 2026 ICIP Peace in Progress Award<\/strong> to the Women’s Platform for Peace in Casamance (Plateforme des Femmes pour la Paix en Casamance<\/a>, PFPC), a network of 15 women’s organisations working for peace, security and women’s rights in the context of the conflict between the Casamance natural region and the Senegalese state that has been ongoing since 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award recognises the Platform’s work in “positioning women as peace agents in conflict resolution and breaking the silence about the war, through the creation of community dialogue spaces at local, regional and national level.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n\n\n

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The PFPC was established in 2010 with the aim of working towards the restoration of peace in the Casamance region after three decades of conflict between the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) and the Senegalese state. It is one of the longest-running conflicts on the African continent, having caused more than 5,000 deaths and 10,000 injuries – many from anti-personnel landmines – and thousands of forced displacements to the neighbouring countries of Guinea-Bissau and Gambia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its founding, the PFPC has carried out community consultations to document lived experiences during the conflict and understand the aspirations of the population<\/strong>, facilitated spaces for communities to express themselves on the peace process in the region, and organised seven Peace Tables with representation from the parties to the conflict, an unprecedented mediation exercise led by women’s collectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In partnership with UN Women and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Platform has promoted actions to combat gender-based violence and established the Women’s Forum of the Senegal\u2013Guinea-Bissau\u2013Gambia Space, a cross-border advocacy framework for peace and regional stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PFPC’s dialogue and advocacy initiatives have had a tangible impact on the region<\/strong>, which has been living under a sustained ceasefire since 2012. That said, despite the various ceasefire agreements signed, a political solution to Casamance’s independence claim – the root cause of the conflict – has never been placed on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Support for women and girls<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The PFPC has played an active role in defending the rights of women in the context of the conflict<\/strong>. Since 2015 it has managed a shelter and support centre for women and girls who are survivors of violence, victims of sexual and physical abuse, offering medical and psychological care as well as support for social and professional reintegration. Since its establishment, the centre has assisted around five hundred women and girls from Senegal and neighbouring countries such as Nigeria and Guinea-Bissau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A long and silenced conflict<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Casamance is a territory of 30,000 square kilometres, bordering Gambia and Guinea-Bissau, with a population of one and a half million. In the Ziguinchor region, the capital, the Diola people predominate \u2014 a community that asserts its culture and traditions and rejects the policies of the Senegalese government, which it considers to have systematically marginalised the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Casamance conflict, despite being one of the longest-running on the African continent, is paradoxically one of the least known. Its origins lie in December 1982, when Senegalese security forces violently suppressed a peaceful demonstration in Ziguinchor, called by the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC), a movement fighting for the region’s independence and the recognition of the rights of the Casamance people. Following those events, the MFDC radicalised its actions and the armed wing of the movement emerged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, there have been periods of high-intensity conflict, particularly in the late 1980s and 1990s, and sporadic or low-intensity clashes between combatants divided into different armed factions and the Senegalese army. Over the years, there have also been numerous peace initiatives, particularly from organisations within the region, many of them led by women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An active peace process<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Following various ceasefires, a peace agreement was signed in 2004 that saw three factions of the MFDC movement abandon armed struggle. Despite the truce, clashes resumed intermittently until 2022, when the MFDC and the Senegalese state signed the Declaration of Mutual Commitment on Disarmament Conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The peace agreement, renewed in 2023, 2024, and 2025, which has led to the disarmament of the movement’s Diakaye faction, does not provide a political solution to the conflict but offers hope for achieving lasting peace in the region. Ending the conflict requires a comprehensive approach encompassing the completion of the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) process for former combatants, demining of the territory, the return of displaced persons and economic revitalisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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