Essaouira:The city of Essaouira is currently hosting the 3rd World Women's Forum for Peace, an event organized by the Paris-based association Les Guerrières de la Paix (Women Warriors for Peace), which has been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. This edition of the forum, ongoing until November 14, gathers activists from conflict zones, political figures, diplomats, representatives of international organizations, and civil society actors. They are united in their mission to amplify the voices of women in peace-building and enhance their roles in conflict prevention and crisis resolution.

According to Agence Marocaine De Presse, the opening ceremony was notably attended by André Azoulay, Advisor to His Majesty the King and Founding President of the Essaouira-Mogador Association, along with various distinguished figures. The forum aims to provide a platform for dialogue and collective reflection, focusing on the practical conditions necessary for establishing a just, inclusive, and sustainable peace, emphasizing women's crucial contributions to these processes.

Hanna Assouline, the founding president of Les Guerrières de la Paix, delivered a speech highlighting the forum's goal to unite women from diverse backgrounds, particularly those from conflict-affected regions. She underscored the forum's unique environment, fostering dialogue and coexistence among women of different generations and perspectives, centered around shared values.

The forum also holds symbolic significance, as noted by Assouline, with reference to Bayt Dakira, where the Holy Quran and the Torah are displayed together, symbolizing the vitality of shared memory and coexistence in everyday life. Over the three-day event, participants engage in a rich program that includes roundtables, debates, testimonials, meetings, exhibitions, documentary screenings, and artistic performances, all aimed at exchanging experiences and identifying actionable solutions to contemporary peace and security challenges.

The World Women's Forum for Peace aspires to be an international platform for dialogue, mobilization, and advocacy, emphasizing the importance of placing women at the heart of initiatives focused on conflict prevention and the establishment of enduring peace.