Preventing crisis and conflict: Women's role in ongoing peace processes / Kristin Lund and Laura Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Lund, Kristin, author.

Contributor:

Mitchell, Laura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

Local Subjects:

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 pages)

Contained In:

UN Chronicle Vol. 54, no. 3, p. 21-23 54:3<21 1564-3913

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This fall will mark 17 years since the adoption of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security. This agenda includes specific provisions for peace negotiations and agreements, as does the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). While there have been achievements in women's access to and participation in peace processes, there is still much to be done. Unfortunately, women continue to be largely excluded from participating in and mediating peace processes. As a result, gender perspectives are absent from emergent peace agreements. This occurs despite the tremendous role that women play in promoting peace, peaceful dialogue and ending hostilities in many armed conflicts. A 2012 UN Women study of 31 peace processes between 1992 and 2011 illustrates well this marginalization of women: only 4 per cent of signatories, 2.4 per cent of chief mediators, 3.7 per cent of witnesses and 9 per cent of negotiators were women.

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