Women, Peace and Security in Post-Conflict and Peacebuilding Contexts - NOREF - Norwegian Peacebuilding Resoure Centre - Jacqui True - WILPF Academic Network
Post-conflict peacebuilding processes present major opportunities for advancing women’s rights and gender equality. But a gender perspective needs to be more effectively operationalised in post-conflict institutions and peacebuilding processes. A key challenge for the United Nations (UN) and its member states in progressing the women, peace and security agenda in post-conflict settings is bridging the gap between the interdependent political and economic security pillars of peacebuilding.
This policy brief suggests concrete ways to mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment in post-conflict processes, building on the UN secretary-general’s 2010 seven-point plan on women’s participation in peacebuilding.
Thematic Focus:
General Women, Peace and Security
Participation
Peace Processes
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding
Date of Paper:
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Contact person email:
academic@wilpf.ch
Responsible for submission:
WILPF Academic Network coordinator on behalf of Jacqui True
Strategic recommendation(s):
- Women should be recruited and trained for decision-making positions across the public and private sectors, but crucially in senior positions relating to the protection and physical security of citizens.
- Accountability mechanisms for ensuring women’s descriptive representation in post-conflict governance should be bolstered. Governments should compile data on the presence/number of women and men (and their positions) in a census of women’s participation in post-conflict governance, and interventions should be planned and implemented where women’s presence is below one-third (cf. APeC, 2002).
- Women’s substantive representation in post-conflict governance should be improved by providing direct technical and capacity-building support to women’s involvement “at the table” in the peacebuilding processes.
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