Building peace requires gender equality
Asterism Advising works at the intersection of women's rights, conflict transformation, and geopolitical change.
Asterism Advising provides consulting services to those working at the intersection of women's rights, conflict transformation, and geopolitical change. The core of our work is threefold: rigorous analysis of who holds influence in a changing peace and security decision-making landscape; deliberate solidarity infrastructure for women peacebuilders to share information and develop strategy across regions and contexts; and policy and strategy work that translates the above intelligence into discussions with decision-makers through publications, private briefings, and advisory relationships.
Asterism Advising provides support to clients and to the Asterism Initiative.
Our Work
Asterism's work is organized across three interconnected areas. Each is grounded in our relationships with women peacebuilders — and designed to serve their strategic interests, not substitute for their voices.
Strategic Intelligence
Asterism Advising produces rigorous, usable analysis of the changing landscape, keeping these insights current and translating them into practical strategic guidance.
Solidarity Infrastructure
Women peacebuilders from local to global contexts consistently identify the same need: genuine connection with peers to share information and strategies. Asterism Advising builds that infrastructure deliberately, working to ensure these spaces are reliable in the long term.
Policy and Strategy
As the gap between women, peace and security commitments and implementation grows wider wider, Asterism Advising provides expert guidance to stakeholders on how to adapt their approaches to the current geopolitical reality.
About Asterism Advising
Asterism takes its name from the star patterns that exist outside official constellation systems: recognized and navigated by those who know the sky, but absent from formal maps. Women peacebuilders often operate in a similar space that is real, consequential, and largely invisible to institutional frameworks.
We founded Asterism Advising on the premise that building sustainable peace requires a different kind of analysis and approach — one built on relationships, field intelligence, and a clear understanding of how influence actually flows in conflict contexts.
Asterism Advising's founder and principal is Dr. Sarah Taylor. For more than twenty years, she has worked at the intersection of women's rights and international peace and security — as an advocate, researcher, policy advisor, and practitioner.
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