This year’s 16 Days of Activism campaign focuses on women and conflict, a timely theme considering we are also reviewing 10 years since the adoption of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325. This resolution linked violence against women during conflict and their marginalisation during peace processes with the challenges of maintaining international peace and security. In the Southern African Development Community (SADC), this review takes place when many countries in the region have recently emerged from conflict and are in the process of peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction.