Gender, Conflict, Peace, and UNSC Resolution 1325

Edited by Seema Shekhawat - Contributions by Seema Shekhawat; Veronica Fynn Bruey; Antal Berkes; Elisabeth Porter; Jan Marie Fritz; Margaret Owen; Corey Barr; Aurora E. Bewicke; Onyinyechukwu Onyido; Amanda Bennett; Emanuela C. Del Re; Maria Hadjipavlou;

There is an increasing amount of literature on various aspects of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. While appreciating this scholarship, this volume highlights some of the omissions and concerns to make a quality addition to the ongoing discourse on the intersection of gender with peace and security with a focus on 1325. It aims at a reality-check of the impressive to-dos list as the seventeen years since the Resolution passed provide an occasion to pause and ponder over the gap between the aspirations and the reality, the ideal and the practice, the promises and the action, the euphoria and the despair. The volume compiles carefully selected essays woven around Resolution 1325 to tease out the intricacies within both the Resolution and its implementation. Through a cocktail of well-known and some lesser-known case studies, the volume addresses complicated realities with the intention of impacting policy-making and the academic fields of gender, peace, and security. The volume emphasizes the significance of transforming formal peace making processes, and making them gender inclusive and gender sensitive by critically examining some omissions in the challenges that the Resolution implementation confronts. The major question the volume seeks to address is this: where are women positioned in the formal peace-making seventeen years after the adoption of Resolution 1325?

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gender, Peace, and UNSC Resolution 1325, by Seema ShekhawatChapter 1: Redefining Women's Roles in International and Regional Law: The Case of Pre- and Post-war Peacebuilding in Liberia, by Veronica Fynn BrueyChapter 2: The Contribution of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325, by Antal BerkesChapter 3: Faith Matters in Women, Peace, and Security Practices, by Elisabeth PorterChapter 4: Creating or Improving a National Action Plan based on UN Security Council Resolution 1325, by Jan Marie FritzChapter 5: Widowhood Issues for Implementation of UNSCR 1325 and Subsequent Resolutions on Women, Peace, and Security, by Margaret OwenChapter 6: The Commodification of Intervention: The Example of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda, by Corey BarrChapter 7: Beyond Borders and Binaries: A Feminist Look at Preventing Violence and Achieving Peace in an Era of Mass Migration, by Aurora E. BewickeChapter 8: The Disconnection Between Theory and Practice: Achieving Item 8b of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, by Onyinyechukwu OnyidoChapter 9: Gender and Feminism in the Israeli Peace Movement: Beyond UNSCR 1325, by Amanda BennettChapter 10: Conflict Ghosts: The Significance of UN Resolution 1325 for the Syrian Women in Years of Conflict, by Emanuela C. Del ReChapter 11: The UNSC Resolution 1325 and Cypriot Women's Activism: Achievements and Challenges, by Maria Hadjipavlou and Olga DemetriouChapter 12: Victims, Nationalists, and Supporters: UNSCR 1325 and the Roles of Ethnic Women's Organizations in Peacebuilding in Burma/Myanmar, by Mollie PepperChapter 13: Gender and the Building up of Many "Peaces": A Decolonial Perspective from Colombia, by Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Yuly Andrea Mejía Jerez, and Rachel TillmanChapter 14: "It's All About Patriarchy": UNSCR 1325, Cultural Constraints, and Women in Kashmir, by Seema ShekhawatAbout the Contributors