If the WPS agenda does not recognize the relationship between participation and protection it will continue to perpetuate the binary between the participation of women as leaders with agency and the protection of women as passive victims of conflict.
Tag: women peace and security
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The COVID-19 pandemic and growing recognition of climate-related security risks have presented the international community with an opportunity to reevaluate what is considered a threat to international peace and security, and how gender should be included in the response.
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Rehema Zaid, an activist in Kenya, discusses the experiences of local actors working on gender and preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE).
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Any conversation about eliminating violence against women needs to look clearly at the police as a source of insecurity and violence in women’s lives.
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An understanding of the gendered insecurities entrenched by natural disasters points to the need to expand the scope of the WPS agenda in order to address the structural violence of the climate crisis.
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Many within the UN community are not clear on what a gender analysis entails.
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COVID-19 has put all progress towards women’s empowerment made so far at risk.
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Madeleine Rees, secretary-general of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, discusses the state of the WPS agenda and lessons for the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Understanding the historical use of female engagement teams in peacekeeping will be critical as the UN standardizes its approach to and justification for using engagement platoons.
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Local Action Plans have the potential to ignite lasting, creative, and meaningful change at the community-level.
