The Pacific

GPPAC members in the Pacific advance a demilitarised, decolonised and denuclearised Peace and Security agenda, building on the region’s long history of peacebuilding and their shared vision ‘’Our Ocean of Peace.’’

Using an inclusive human security approach to identify and reduce tensions and instability across the region, the network members are committed to advancing gender-inclusive conflict prevention, closely linked to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 16, and to strengthening the voice of civil society in intergovernmental and multilateral processes. 

As Pacific communities continue to face severe climate change impacts, including environmental degradation, displacement, human rights violations, and ecocide, the GPPAC Pacific network brings together peacebuilders, including faith‑based and civil society leaders, from independent and non-independent states, to advance a gender and youth-inclusive approach to peacebuilding. Through political engagement, including with the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) and multilateral processes, network members provide key intersectional insights and recommendations to enhance conflict prevention, non‑violence, and climate justice in the development of the PIF Regional Action Plan on Peace and Security. They do so by bringing evidence and lessons from how communities respond to escalating climate‑related challenges that increasingly threaten community wellbeing and regional stability.

A central feature of their approach is “weaving a new mat”, a Pacific framework that brings together Indigenous knowledge, customary practice, faith-based approaches, and human rights principles to create more inclusive and locally grounded peacebuilding processes. Through regional dialogue, advocacy, and cross-movement collaboration, members continue to promote people-centred and climate justice-oriented approaches to peacebuilding across the Pacific and beyond.

Why our members’ work matters in the Pacific:
 

GPPAC members in the Pacific have pioneered the network’s work at the intersection of climate security and ecological justice, gender equality and inter-generational collaboration in peacebuilding. Through faith-based, feminist, and Indigenous leadership, members work to strengthen inclusive and justice-based responses to climate and security challenges, while amplifying Pacific voices in regional and global advocacy processes.

They established the Pacific Women Mediators Network, which advances the meaningful participation of women in mediation, negotiation, and peacebuilding processes. Members in the Pacific have also championed the localisation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security, strengthening diverse women’s leadership in conflict prevention, mediation and peacebuilding processes.

Building on members engagement with the Pacific Islands Forum in the development of the Pacific Regional Action Plan on WPS, the development of Conflict Prevention and Human Security Frameworks, in 2025 GPPAC Pacific members welcomed the adoption of the Pacific Forum Leaders Ocean of Peace Declaration which in addition to the Boe Declaration (2018) will inform the development of the Pacific Island Forum’s first Regional Action Plan on Peace and Security. GPPAC members in the Pacific continue to contribute to the development of the Action Plan by providing critical gender and civil society oversight while also convening its own Pasifika Peace Talanoa with Pacific Island Forum members.

Click here to read more about the Pacific Women Mediators Network. 
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Knowledge Products:
 

Selected publications from network members in the Pacific include:

• Lessons Learned and Strategic Operationalisation of Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace in the Pacific: 2025 Review of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture Informal Regional Consultation
• Pasifika Peace Talanoa Advancing Gender Equality, Inclusive Peacebuilding, Conflict Prevention and Human Security: To guide  the development of the Pacific Islands Forum Regional Peace and Security Action Plan 
• Mediating for Inclusive Peacebuilding and Human Security in the Pacific