Finding Gender Equality in the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

Barbara K. Trojanowska is a researcher, practitioner, and women’s rights advocate. Her research and policy interests lie at the intersection of women’s rights instruments, global security, and contentious politics. She has published award winning scholarship as well as reports for government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Goal of Gender Equality in Peace and SecurityDilemmas of Gender Equality PolicymakingThe Trajectory of Gender EqualityParadigms of Gender Equality in The Women, Peace and Security AgendaGlobal, Regional and National PerspectivesEmpirically-Driven ResearchChapter 1: The United Nations Security CouncilGender Equality in the UN’s Peace and Security DiscourseUNSCR 1325 and the Vision of Gender EqualityThe Emergence of Paradigms of Gender EqualityThe Security ParadigmThe Development ParadigmThe Human Rights ParadigmPost-2015 Resistance to Gender EqualityConclusionsChapter 2: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Pacific Islands ForumThe Role of Regional Organisations in Implementing UNSCR 1325The Engagement of Asia and the Pacific with the Women, Peace and Security AgendaAssociation of Southeast Asian NationsPacific Islands ForumConclusionsChapter 3: Government of the PhilippinesThe Women, Peace and Sec

Trojanowska beautifully demonstrates the intellectual pay-off of pursuing a ‘feminist curiosity’ in this important contribution. This book is a must-read not only for those working on, and with, the Women, Peace and Security agenda, but also for anyone interested in gender equality initiatives in global governance more broadly. Trojanowska skilfully elaborates three paradigms of gender equality, linked to security, development, and human rights, and shows how each influences – and is also reproduced through – work on the agenda in Australia and the Philippines. Based on wide-ranging and meticulous empirical research, Trojanowska’s conclusions about the opportunities for, and obstacles to, enhancing gender equality through the Women, Peace and Security agenda are trenchant and have resonance far beyond the case studies she presents.