#UNSCR 1325

Of Foxes and Chicken Coops* – Reflections on the “Failure of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda”

June 22, 2022 / News & Highlights, Opinion

UN member states have failed to fulfill their UNSCR 1325 obligations, with the virtual shelving of much-heralded plans of action. However, it is clear that the failure lies not in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, nor in the Security Council resolution which gave rise to it, but rather among the member states that have stonewalled rather than implemented National Action Plans. “Where are the women?” a speaker at the Security Council recently asked. As Betty Reardon observes, the women are on the ground, working in direct actions to fulfill the agenda.

Civil Society Continues to Call the World Community to Action on Afghanistan

August 18, 2021 / Action Alerts, News & Highlights

As the fate of Afghanistan falls into the tightening grip of the Taliban, International Civil Society continues to call for action to mitigate the human suffering and keep alive the possibilities for peace. We encourage all members of the GCPE to find an action or actions to call upon their own governments and UN representatives to take up the cause of human rights and peace in Afghanistan.

Call to Action: UNSCR 1325 as an Instrument for the Protection of Afghan Women

August 17, 2021 / Action Alerts, News & Highlights

Members of international civil society assert that the human rights and security of women and girls must be integral to whatever course of action the UN determines to take in Afghanistan. We invite you to join in this effort, by signing this call to protect Afghan women, to establish UNSCR 1325 as a practically applicable international norm, and to assure that peacekeepers are prepared to honor its principles.

GCPE signs the Compact on Women, Peace, and Security and Humanitarian Action. Please join us!

July 26, 2021 / Action Alerts, News & Highlights

As the Global Campaign for Peace Education signs on to the “Women, Peace & Security and Humanitarian Action (WPS-HA) Compact,” we manifest our responsibilities as participants in global civil society, the origin of some of the most significant international norms we call upon. GCPE urges our readers & members to call upon all the civil society organizations through which they work to sign and join the Compact.

Breathing Life into UNSCR 1325 – Women’s groups call for UN peacekeeping force in Afghanistan

August 17, 2021 / News & Highlights

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security obliges member states to provide protection to women in conflict situations. Like all legal norms and standards, its utility lies in its application to actual situations. Civil society is now mobilizing to move UN member states to apply its principles in Afghanistan. The protection provision also provides the grounds for the UN to deploy peacekeepers.

Peacebuilders Need the Concept of “the Militarist-Sexist Symbiosis” to Change the Militarized Security System

October 29, 2020 / News & Highlights

This essay by Yuuka Kageyama explores Betty Reardon’s conceptualization of the war system as upheld by a symbiotic relationship between militarism and sexism. The significance and relevance of this symbiosis in confronting the peace problematique of today is in its systemic approach to analyzing the interconnectedness of the causes and processes of various forms of violence in the war system as a whole.

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