WITHDRAWN—Administrative Duplicate Publication: ‘Women and peace’: A human rights strategy for the women, peace and security agenda
| DOI | 10.1177/0924015917737912 |
| Author | Isobel Renzulli |
| Published date | 01 March 2020 |
| Date | 01 March 2020 |
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and peace’: A human rights
strategy for the women, peace
and security agenda
Isobel Renzulli
School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich, Greenwich, UK
Abstract
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the successive thematic resolutions together with a
variety of reports have shaped the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. The ensuing policies
and institutional responses try to deal with a variety of issues including women’s participation in
peace-making initiatives and protection from sexual violence during armed conflict and in its
aftermath. As such these responses are underpinned by a reactive approach with a focus on
conflict and post-conflict gender-sensitive areas of intervention. While these remain worthwhile
interventions, the WPS agenda, in spite of its name, inadequately addresses gender-sensitive areas
in peace situations, regardless of the existence of conflicts. Building on feminist critiques of the
WPS agenda and the findings and recommendations of the 2015 UN Global study on the imple-
mentation of Resolution 1325, the article argues that the WSP agenda and its prevention limb need
to elaborate and integrate more explicitly and comprehensively a human rights strategy that shifts
the focus from a reactive to a proactive model, one which pursues gender equality and women’s
human rights in its own right, irrespective of whether conflicts erupt or not. A human rights infused
WPS preventive agenda should be premised, on the one hand, on a clear understanding and
endorsement of the meaning of gender equality, on the other hand, on the creation of mechanisms
and process bolstering the role of international and regional human rights regimes. In particular,
robust regional human rights systems have the potential to create fora for the participation of and
interaction with domestic constituencies in the region. This in turn could lead to the elaboration of
context sensitive, participatory solutions, grounded in international human rights law, to existing
forms of discrimination against women, which during conflicts may be exacerbated, for example, in
the form of sexual enslavement and abductions as reported in recent and less recent conflicts.
Keywords
Women, peace and security, feminist activism, human rights, UN, African Union, Arab League
Corresponding author:
Isobel Renzulli, Lecturer in Law, School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich, Greenwich SE109LS, UK.
Email: I.Renzulli@greenwich.ac.uk
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