Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Abstract

has marked the development of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda (WPS). The agenda has emerged as the dominant normative framework for the articulation of a gender perspective in the context of crisis management and security, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Essentially the agenda acknowledges that gender matters in conflict and in peace-making and signals commitments to centre the role of women in peace and security. It sets out aspirations and recommendations for mainstreaming gender in all aspects of conflict management, prevention and peacebuilding. These include reform of peacekeeping and other security forces, inclusion of women in all level of decision-making, responses to the diverse impact of conflict on women and men, strategies to address conflict related sexual violence, to name but a few.