With a new incoming Biden administration 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 US foreign policy built on intersectional feminist principles and driven by social movements.
At this pivotal moment, we can choose to maintain the failed status quo or imagine a safer, healthier, and more equitable future. We can choose to allow violence and greed to dictate our lives or we can choose a new path that resets the United States’ relationship with the rest of the world and uplifts us all.
In February 2020, three organizations — Grass- roots Global Justice Alliance, MADRE, and Women Cross DMZ — convened a group of 23 women and gender-nonconforming people from across the United States. Our multigenerational group included veterans, anti-war activists, Indigenous and community organizers, migrant justice organizers, political strategists, and scholars — many from diasporic communities whose homelands have been impacted by US militarism and wars. This document reflects the conversation that began and continued from there.
We came together because we are connected in our struggles against interlocking systems of power and domination — capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy, and militarism — within and beyond the borders of the United States. We came together to examine, challenge, and reimagine a US foreign policy in the interests of all people.
Our wide-ranging discussion addressed three main themes:
- The need to advance diplomacy and collective approaches over militarism and coercive intervention.
- An intersectional, transnational, and movement-driven feminist approach to foreign and domestic policies.
- Building wider constituencies to support feminist foreign policy frameworks.
