Women, Peace, Security, and the National Action Plans

Abstract

Twenty criteria are used to analyze sixteen national action plans that focus on women, peace, and security. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, a base for the national plans, highlights the terrible consequences of violent conflict on women and girls as well as the important role of women in all peacebuilding processes. Suggestions are made for those developing or revising plans and include addressing the relevant points from four UN Security Council resolutions (1325, 1820, 1888, and 1889); specifying all processes and timelines; and including civil society participation in all phases of a plan's development; implementation, and assessment.

New Directions in Women, Peace and Security

“…Further, acknowledging impediments to implementation sidesteps the question of how implementation is monitored and evaluated. Monitoring and evaluation of the evidence base on which judgements about implementation are founded is contested across many contexts of WPS practice (see, for example, Gumru and Fritz, 2009;Fritz, Doering and Gumru, 2011;Lee-Koo, 2016). There have certainly been a number of striking claims made about WPS implementation and the difference that effective implementation makes in the world: consider, for example, frequently cited data about correlation between women's participation and durability of peace agreements.…”

New Directions in Women, Peace and Security

“…Further, acknowledging impediments to implementation sidesteps the question of how implementation is monitored and evaluated. Monitoring and evaluation of the evidence base on which judgements about implementation are founded is contested across many contexts of WPS practice (see, for example, Gumru and Fritz, 2009;Fritz, Doering and Gumru, 2011;Lee-Koo, 2016). There have certainly been a number of striking claims made about WPS implementation and the difference that effective implementation makes in the world: consider, for example, frequently cited data about correlation between women's participation and durability of peace agreements.…”

Gender essentialism in Canadian foreign aid commitments to women, peace, and security

“…Moreover, in 2004 UN member-states were asked to prepare action plans to highlight their strategies and indicators of success. 25 Canada's plan came 10 years after the adoption of Resolution 1325, six years after the official call, and several years after the adoption of similar national action plans by other leading gender-conscious donor countries such as Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.…”