The NGO FAS has been founded by African women leaders in 1996 in Geneve, in order to prevent and resolve conflicts in Africa and to empower woman for having a leadership role in peace building. Its conceptual framework is the UN Resolution 1325.

The FAS philosophy is that every woman in Africa can play a role to achieve peace and improve their quality of life. Women are not perceived by FAS as passive victims, but acknowledged as key civil society agents and enormous potential.
Women, in the FAS vision, can make a big difference towards a new social order that guarantees the respect of women's rights, women's equal responsibility for, and equal access and opportunity to participate in decision-making.
Among the FAS principles are: women's empowerment and ownership to sustainable peace as a paramount; women's natural tendency to solidarity making them natural peace advocates; and
women's equal participation in decision-making processes as an ultimate necessity, based in gender parity and competence as well.