PACIFIC WOMEN MEDIATORS NETWORK: TRANSFORMATIVE FEMINIST MOVEMENT BUILDING ON WPS
Apr 12, 2024
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We live in a time of growing global securitization and militarised responses to all types of crises, including armed conflict and climate change impacts. This trend redirects resources away from conflict prevention, damaging the gains achieved by local peacebuilders.
In 2000, when women peacebuilders collectively advocated for the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda at the UN Security Council, it was for a new gender-transformative approach to peace and security that requires making conflict prevention a priority on the Security Council’s agenda.
To end conflicts, the 2015 Global Study on UNSCR1325 raised the urgency:
1) to reduce military expenditures and control the availability of armaments in coherence with countries’ commitments to human rights and gender equality;
2) to promote non-violent forms of conflict resolution and strengthen comprehensive early warning systems; and
3) to foster a culture of peace through peace education and inclusion – because WPS agenda is about ending conflict, not about making conflict safer for women.
The Global Study emphasised that without transformative action, harmful gender norms, traditional gender relations, and gender inequalities will persist, conflicts, crises, and violence will continue.
Also in 2015, as a result of the leadership of the Pacific women peacebuilders, UNSC Resolution 2242 on Women, Peace and Security was adopted noting ‘the changing global context of peace and security, in particular relating to […] the impacts of climate change’
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