Abstract
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is the world’s oldest existing women’s peace organization. Created in 1915, it has protested war and worked for disarmament mainly through the League of Nations and the United Nations, making political lobbying its preferred method of activism. Since the 1960s, WILPF has increasingly linked the peace cause to social justice and a more outspoken feminist agenda both in an East–West and a North–South perspective. Insisting on dialogue and criticizing everyone equally, WILPF was accused of being fellow-travellers of Communism during the first Red Scare (after WWI) and the Cold War. After the Cold War, WILPF has been at the forefront of pushing the Women, Peace and Security agenda.