Sarah Taylor is Associate Director of Inclusive Peace.
From August 2017-April 2020, Sarah was a senior fellow at IPI, responsible for the organization’s work on women, peace and security.
Prior to joining IPI, Sarah was the women, peace and security advocate in the women’s rights division at Human Rights Watch, focusing both on international accountability frameworks on women’s rights in conflict, and on women, peace and security concerns in specific country situations, including in Burma, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Central African Republic. From 2008-2014, Sarah was the Executive Coordinator of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. Under her leadership, the NGOWG developed innovative policy briefings and accountability tools for the UN Security Council’s obligations on women, peace and security.
In her academic work, Sarah has conducted research on women conflict negotiators, particularly in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and has written on numerous aspects of the women, peace and security agenda. Sarah holds an MA from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and an MPhil and a PhD from the New School for Social Research in New York, all in Political Science.
Over the past twenty years, UN peace operations have made progress toward gender equality. Most of their mandates refer to women or gender, and the UN and member states have agreed to numerical targets to increase the percentage of women peacekeepers. Meeting, and exceeding, these targets, however, will require the UN to better understand the […]
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As the twentieth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace, and security (WPS) approaches, the ad hoc nature of and limited accountability for implementation of the WPS agenda are undermining its full promise. This is despite increasing recognition that efforts to build and sustain peace are dependent upon the full participation […]
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For two decades, the women, peace, and security agenda has been the subject of policy development internationally, regionally, and nationally. But by many indicators, the global status of these commitments to gender equality is under threat. In the multilateral system, a growing number of states are questioning established standards of women’s rights, while international policy […]
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Comprehensive leadership training is necessary to ensure that peace operations are effective and that senior leaders are prepared for both the daily challenges and the inevitable crises of peacekeeping. A gender perspective is of central importance to such training. However, gender considerations—from gendered conflict analysis to recognition of who is in the room when decisions […]
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