Making Women Count - Not Just Counting Women: Assessing Women’s Inclusion and Influence on Peace Negotiations
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Making Women Count - Not Just Counting Women: Assessing Women’s Inclusion and Influence on Peace Negotiations
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Paffenholz, Thania
Ross, Nick
Dixon, Steven
Schluchter, Anna-Lena
True, Jacqui
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2016Üst Veri
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Fifteen years after the adoption of the landmark UN Security Council Resolution
1325, women remain significantly underrepresented in peace and transitional
processes. A central challenge is the lack of evidence-based knowledge on
the precise role and impact of women’s inclusion on peace processes. When
women have been included in the past, it was mainly due to normative pressure
applied by women’s groups and their international supporters.
The results of the “Broadening Participation in Political Negotiations and
Implementation” project — an ongoing multi-year research project started
in 2011 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
in Geneva, Switzerland, under the leadership of Dr. Thania Paffenholz —
address these empirical knowledge gaps. Comprised of 40 in-depth
qualitative case studies, this project examines the role and impact of all
actors and groups— in addition to the main conflict parties—included in
peace and political transition processes throughout all phases, including
post-agreement implementation.
The objective of this report is to present an analysis of women’s inclusion
distilled from the larger “Broadening Participation” research project to
date, in order to provide UN Women (and other organizations studying
women’s inclusion) with direct comparative evidence on women’s influence
in previous cases of peace processes since the 1990s.
For the purpose of the research, ‘women’ were defined as organized groups
(such as women’s delegations and women’s civil society organizations,
networks, or coalitions) participating alongside other actors, such as civil
society, political parties, or previously-sidelined armed groups.