Building peace requires gender equality
Asterism Advising works at the intersection of women's rights, conflict transformation, and geopolitical change.
The landscape of building sustainable peace is changing. Formal institutions no longer hold a monopoly on mediation, and the networks through which women peacebuilders operate — back-channels, diaspora connections, cultural spaces, informal coalitions — are often invisible to the frameworks designed to support them.
Asterism exists to map those networks, strengthen those connections, and translate field intelligence into policy that serves the people doing the work.
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 voice.
Strategic Intelligence
The landscape of who holds influence in efforts to build and sustain peace is changing. Asterism produces rigorous, usable analysis of this 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 builds that infrastructure deliberately.
Policy and Strategy
The gap between institutional women, peace and security commitments and implementation is growing wider, not shrinking. Asterism advises stakeholders on how to adapt their approaches to the current reality — which means being honest about what is and is not working.
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. The work of women peacebuilders operates in exactly this space: real, consequential, and largely invisible to the institutional frameworks that are meant to support them.
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We founded Asterism 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.
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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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