Gendered Violence and UNSCR 1325 in Kosovo: Shifting Paradigms on Women, Peace and Security
Categories: Statebuilding
Sub-Categories: International Law, Nonviolent Resistance, Peacekeeping, Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Country: Kosovo
Region: Europe and Eurasia
Year: 2011
Citation: Hall-Martin, Catherina H. "Gendered Violence and UNSCR 1325 in Kosovo: Shifting Paradigms on Women, Peace and Security." In Women, Peace and Security: Translating Policy into Practice, edited by 'Funmi Olonisakin, Karen Barnes, and Eka Ikpe, 37-51. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Sub-Categories: International Law, Nonviolent Resistance, Peacekeeping, Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Country: Kosovo
Region: Europe and Eurasia
Year: 2011
Citation: Hall-Martin, Catherina H. "Gendered Violence and UNSCR 1325 in Kosovo: Shifting Paradigms on Women, Peace and Security." In Women, Peace and Security: Translating Policy into Practice, edited by 'Funmi Olonisakin, Karen Barnes, and Eka Ikpe, 37-51. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Executive Summary
This chapter discusses the role played by Kosovar women to mitigate conflict, as well as to press for gender justice and recognition in the highly patriarchal before, during, and after the war. This analysis is done against the backdrop of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325). In stages, the paper explores how Kosovo women engaged in informal non-violent activism to bring about a semblance of peace to their war-torn country before the intervention of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK). It also analyses how the presence of UNMIK impacted on and influenced the activism of women; and how, if at all, UNMIK peace initiatives took consideration of women’s civil action.