(En)gendered Security? The Complexities of Women's Inclusion in Peace Processes

Ellerby, Kara

doi:10.1080/03050629.2013.805130

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“…15 From 2005 onwards, there was a notable increase in the number of peace agreements dealing with multiple aspects of gender security and participation, but there remains a tendency for parties not to integrate gender across post-conflict negotiations. 16 The 2015 global study on the implementation of Resolution 1325 found that the proportion of peace agreements since 2000 making reference to women was 27 per cent, more than double the level over the period 1990-2000. 17 Given the WPS stress on women as both makers and beneficiaries of peace, this trend towards inclusion is clearly welcome.…”

Section: Past(s) Continuousmentioning

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The futures past of the Women, Peace and Security agenda

Kirby

Shepherd

2016

International Affairs

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The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has developed at the United Nations over the course of the past 15 years, and there have been critical engagements with it for nearly as long. In this article, we first take stock of the operationalization of the WPS agenda, reviewing its implementation across a number of sectors. In the second section, we expose the tensions that have marked the WPS agenda from the start. With others, we argue that there has been a narrowing of the agenda's original scope, reducing it to the traditional politics of security rather than reimagining what security means. We highlight this reduction primarily through an analysis of the tension between the ‘participation’ and ‘protection’ pillars of the agenda. Further, we argue that the WPS agenda faces a current challenge in terms of the actors entrusted with it. Although in some ways involving civil society, the consolidations and implementation of WPS principles at the national and international levels have become increasingly state‐centric. Third, we imagine some possible futures of the agenda, from a trajectory characterized by increasing marginalization or even irrelevance, to new avenues like the emergent, albeit tentative, ‘Men, Peace and Security’ agenda. We close with an argument for a revival of the WPS agenda beyond a fixation on states, beyond a narrow heteronormative or essentialist focus on the ‘Women’ of the WPS resolutions, and moving towards the radical reimagining of security as peace that inspired the original architects of these important resolutions.

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Section: Past(s) Continuousmentioning

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The futures past of the Women, Peace and Security agenda

Kirby

Shepherd

2016

International Affairs

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“…According to Ellerby, such a standard is composed by four elements of inclusion: representation (decision-making, quotas), incorporation (gender balance in everyday activities and institutions), protection (safety and equality, gender-based violence, access to resources, anti-discrimination), and recognition (gender perspective, special rights and needs, legal changes). 299 Finally, the 2008 Nuremberg Declaration on Peace and Justice called for increased representation and active involvement of women in transitional processes. It recommends that "post-conflict legal orders should rectify legal and social discrimination based on gender.…”

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International Law in the Colombian Transition

Rojas-Orozco¹

2021

International Law and Transition to Peace in Colombia

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“…In this regard shaming and faming are similar. Both can shape conceptions regarding correct policy models (Ellerby, 2013; Kelley & Simmons, 2015). Another reason for the importance of public norm specification is that it helps persuade governments of the appropriateness of specific policy choices, such as the appropriate length of pre-trial arrests or the acceptable means for containing public protest (Deitelhoff & Müller, 2005; Risse, 2000).…”

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For better or worse: Shaming, faming, and human rights abuse

Kahn-Nisser

2020

Journal of Peace Research

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Does it matter whether human rights (HR) shaming is accompanied by acknowledgments of reforms and progress? Do such acknowledgments weaken or strengthen the impact of shaming? Rulers decide whether to oppress or to comply with HR treaty obligations by considering what compliance entails and by weighing the internal and external costs and benefits of oppression. Research shows that HR shaming alters such considerations and is associated with changes in HR protection levels. Can the same be said of faming? This article examines three forms of HR reporting: faming, which focuses on positive developments; shaming, which focuses on problematic HR practices; and scrutiny, which combines shaming and faming. The article analyzes the association between shaming, faming, and scrutiny by UN treaty bodies, on the one hand, and oppression on the other. The potential associations are conceptualized as mitigation, backsliding, and specification. The analysis finds that shaming with no faming and faming with no shaming are each negatively associated with HR protection. Scrutiny, the combination of shaming and faming, is positively associated with subsequent HR protection levels, and the higher the level of scrutiny the higher the subsequent level of HR protection. The article argues that the reason for this association is that the combination of shaming and faming helps policymakers understand how to properly implement their treaty obligations and how to improve HR protection. The article draws policy and theoretical implications including the need for balanced and detailed HR reporting, and the importance of learning in HR advocacy.

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(En)gendered Security? The Complexities of Women's Inclusion in Peace Processes

Cited by 43 publications

References 38 publications

The futures past of the Women, Peace and Security agenda

The futures past of the Women, Peace and Security agenda

International Law in the Colombian Transition

For better or worse: Shaming, faming, and human rights abuse

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