Gender, Conflict, Peace, and UNSC Resolution 1325

Seema Shekhawat is a political scientist with a PhD in gender, conflict, and displacement from the University of Jammu.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gender, Peace, and UNSC Resolution 1325, by Seema ShekhawatChapter 1: Redefining Women’s Roles in International and Regional Law: The Case of Pre- and Post-war Peacebuilding in Liberia, by Veronica Fynn BrueyChapter 2:The Contribution of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325, by Antal BerkesChapter 3: Faith Matters in Women, Peace, and Security Practices, by Elisabeth PorterChapter 4: Creating or Improving a National Action Plan based on UN Security Council Resolution 1325, by Jan Marie FritzChapter 5: Widowhood Issues for Implementation of UNSCR 1325 and Subsequent Resolutions on Women, Peace, and Security, by Margaret OwenChapter 6: The Commodification of Intervention: The Example of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda, by Corey BarrChapter 7: Beyond Borders and Binaries: A Feminist Look at Preventing Violence and Achieving Peace in an Era of Mass Migration, by Aurora E. BewickeChapter 8: The Disconnection Between Theory and Practice: Achieving Item 8b of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, by Onyinyechukwu OnyidoChapter 9: Gender and Feminism in the Israeli Peace Movement: Beyond UNSCR 1325, by Amanda BennettChapter 10: Conflict Ghosts: The Significance of UN Resolution 1325 for the Syrian Women in Years of Conflict, by Emanuela C. Del ReChapter 11: The UNSC Resolution 1325 and Cypriot Women’s Activism: Achievements and Challenges, by Maria Hadjipavlou and Olga DemetriouChapter 12: Victims, Nationalists, and Supporters: UNSCR 1325 and the Roles of Ethnic Women’s Organizations in Peacebuilding in Burma/Myanmar, by Mollie PepperChapter 13: Gender and the Building up of Many “Peaces”: A Decolonial Perspective from Colombia, by Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Yuly Andrea Mejía Jerez, and Rachel TillmanChapter 14: “It’s All About Patriarchy”: UNSCR 1325, Cultural Constraints, and Women in Kashmir, by Seema ShekhawatAbout the Contributors

This new volume, edited by Seema Shekhawat, makes a significant contribution to the body of good practice and analysis on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 (adopted in 2000). . . . This book is an ideal text to improve the understanding and relevance of the women, peace, and security agenda amongst a mainstream academic and policy audience. For advocates and specialists working on mainstreaming gender in the situations covered in the volume, the analysis provides extremely useful evidence and historical context for their efforts to promote implementation of1325. The chapters are accessible and engaging, while the case studies are highly topical and relevant for ongoing policy debates around sustaining peace and the Sustainable Development Goals. In April 2018, the President of the General Assembly organised a high-level meeting on Sustaining Peace, where ministers and other decision-makers universally acknowledged the urgency of transforming our current peace and security paradigm to one that is more inclusive, preventive, and resilient – all concepts enshrined in Resolution 1325. Seema Shekhawat’s text provides compelling analysis of the necessity to implement the resolution with the utmost urgency.