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    The International Peace Institute (IPI) is an independent, international not-for-profit think tank dedicated to managing risk and building resilience to promote peace, security, and sustainable development. To achieve its purpose, IPI employs a mix of policy research, strategic analysis, publishing, and convening. With staff from more than twenty countries and a broad range of academic fields, IPI has offices facing United Nations headquarters in New York and an office in Manama.

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News, Events, Publications about Women‚ Peace and Security

  • Policy Papers 06-16-2021by Catherine Turner and Aisling Swaine

    At the Nexus of Participation and Protection: Protection-Related Barriers to Women’s Participation in Northern Ireland

    The protection of women in armed conflict and their participation in peace and security activities are central pillars of the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda. Overall, however, the WPS agenda has overlooked the relationship between participation and protection. This perpetuates a false binary between the participation of women as leaders with agency and the […]

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    Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Issue Briefs 06-11-2021by Liezelle Kumalo

    Perceptions and Lived Realities of Women Police Officers in UN Peace Operations

    Over the past decade, the UN has undertaken several initiatives to increase the number of women police officers deployed to peace operations. Collectively, these initiatives have increased the proportion of women police officers deployed to UN missions. However, women police still face challenges deploying to missions and effectively contributing to mission mandates.This paper interrogates the […]

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    Women‚ Peace and Security
  • 03-08-2021

    IPI MENA, UN Women, UNHCHR, ESCWA and Bahrain Call for Women Leadership and Empowerment

    Addressing representatives of government, private sector, the diplomatic and civil society on the occasion of International Women’s Day, IPI MENA Director Nejib Friji joined a global call to further women’s leadership and empowerment.During a virtual conference on March 8th that brought together around five hundred participants, H.E. Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Minister of Foreign […]

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    Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Videos 03-08-2021

    Strengthening Gender Equality: Inclusion and Meaningful Participation of Women in Building Peace

    On March 8th, International Women’s Day, IPI together with the Government of Sweden, cohosted a virtual interactive dialogue between civil society representatives and H.E. Ms. Ann Linde, Foreign Minister of Sweden and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, to discuss ways to ensure the inclusion and meaningful participation of women at all points before, during, and after conflict, as […]

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    Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Issue Briefs 02-16-2021by Laura Cuzzuol and Welmoet Wels

    UN Peacekeeping Operations and Gendered Threats to the Protection of Civilians

    The intersection between the protection of civilians (POC) and gender has been addressed in Security Council resolutions on POC and on women, peace, and security (WPS) since the late 1990s. Nonetheless, understanding how POC and gender converge, and translating this convergence into implementable action plans, are challenging tasks for peacekeeping missions.This paper examines how peacekeeping […]

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    Protection of Civilians, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Policy Papers 02-11-2021by Albert Trithart

    A UN for All? UN Policy and Programming on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics

    Sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) have been on the UN’s agenda for more than twenty-five years. Many of the earliest developments took place in the UN human rights mechanisms and Human Rights Council. Increasingly, however, UN agencies, funds, and programs are also integrating SOGIESC into their policy and programming.This paper […]

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    Human Rights, Sustainable Development, UN System, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Issue Briefs 01-31-2021by Lisa Sharland

    Women, Peace, and Security Mandates for UN Peacekeeping Operations: Assessing Influence and Impact

    Peacekeeping mission mandates now routinely include language on women, peace, and security (WPS). Despite this progress, negotiations in the Security Council on the inclusion of WPS language in mandates have at times been contested, and it is not always clear that more detailed or “stronger” language on WPS in mandates translates to changes in peacekeeping […]

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    Peacekeeping, UN Security Council, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Policy Papers 10-19-2020by Lotte Vermeij

    Woman First, Soldier Second: Taboos and Stigmas Facing Military Women in UN Peace Operations

    Despite efforts to increase the participation of women uniformed peacekeepers, military women continue to face taboos and stigmas that are barriers to their inclusion and successful deployment. These range from gender stereotypes that cause military women to face more scrutiny than their male counterparts to difficulties speaking up about discriminatory and sexualized behavior, including racism, […]

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    Peacekeeping, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Panel Discussions 09-16-2020

    Sweden Foreign Minister Calls for Push to Implement Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

    “Where a crisis moves in, inclusion moves out, but there is no law of nature governing this,” declared Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde, making the point that although the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to set back the goals of the Women, Peace, and Security agenda, it should instead be a factor motivating a redoubled effort to […]

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    Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Issue Briefs 09-15-2020by Masooma Rahmaty and Jasmine Jaghab

    Peacebuilding during a Pandemic: Keeping the Focus on Women’s Inclusion

    This year was expected to be an opportunity to assess the past twenty years of progress on the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda. Instead, it has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has dominated the international community’s attention and put recent gains for WPS at risk. One of the areas most at risk […]

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    Peacebuilding, Women‚ Peace and Security
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