Women, Peace and Security: New Conceptual Challenges and Opportunities
Categories: Conflict Prevention
Sub-Categories: International Agreements, Peacekeeping
Region: No Region
Year: 2013
Citation: Pratt, Nicola and Sophie Richter-Devroe. Women, Peace and Security: New Conceptual Challenges and Opportunities. Oslo: Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre, 2013.
Sub-Categories: International Agreements, Peacekeeping
Region: No Region
Year: 2013
Citation: Pratt, Nicola and Sophie Richter-Devroe. Women, Peace and Security: New Conceptual Challenges and Opportunities. Oslo: Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre, 2013.
Executive Summary
The author argues that the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda, most notably through UNSCR 1325, serves to integrate women into the existing peace and security framework without transforming it. By dissecting the WPS agenda through three lenses (gender and conflict, gender and peacebuilding, and the WPS agenda and feminist visions of peace), the author offers recommendations for how to transform the international peace and security agenda.