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Building Women into Peace: The International Legal Framework

Authored by: Christine Chinkin and Hilary Charlesworth

Categories: Peace Support Operations, Statebuilding
Sub-Categories: Democratization and Political Participation, Economic Participation, Peacemaking, Political Transitions, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Region: No Region
Year: 2006
Citation: Chinkin, Christine and Hilary Charlesworth. "Building Women into Peace: The International Legal Framework." Third World Quarterly 27, no. 5 (2006): 937-957.

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Abstract

Peace-building is now a major aspect of the work of international institutions. While once the international community aimed simply to maintain a ceasefire and restore some form of stability in conflict zones, since the early 1990s there has been increasing attention given to creating peaceful and democratic societies through international intervention. A common problem in international peace-building projects over the past decade has been the position of women, particularly their limited involvement in the institutional design of peace-building strategies and the possibility that peace-building may actually reduce local women’s agency in society. This article discusses the modern enterprise of peace-building and identifies international legal principles that can serve as a framework for peace-building projects in which women’s lives are taken seriously.