Equal Power – Lasting Peace: Obstacles for Women’s Participation in Peace Processes

  • Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Åsa Nyquist Brandt, and Agneta Söderberg Jacobson

Summary

This report documents the obstacles to women’s participation in peace processes. It draws lessons from case studies conducted on Nagorno-Karabakh, the DRC, Iraq, Liberia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bringing these case studies together, the report emphasizes the impact of different and diverse forms of power on women’s involvement in peace processes and makes recommendations to international actors to better facilitate women’s invovlement in this area.

Citation

Selimovic, Johanna Mannergren, Åsa Nyquist Brandt, and Agneta Söderberg Jacobson. Equal Power – Lasting Peace: Obstacles for Women’s Participation in Peace Processes. Stockholm: Kvinna till Kvinna, 2012.

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