Constitution-making is a frequent feature of peace processes, and a March 26th IPI policy forum cosponsored by Inclusive Security and the Permanent Mission of Estonia to the United Nations explored how various countries have taken up the task. The panel centered on countries emerging from conflict and how an inclusive constitution-making approach was essential to […]
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Global indices are a way to assess and compare national progress on key issues by distilling an array of complex information into a single number and ranking. Until recently, there was no index that explicitly brought together the three dimensions of women’s inclusion, access to justice, and security.To fill that void, a new women, peace, […]
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Development programs tend to include women affected by conflict and violence as passive beneficiaries, rather than as active agents in strengthening gender equality, peacebuilding, and sustainable development. And where development partners do support women’s agency in strengthening recovery and reconciliation in rural areas, they often fail to link these activities to wider processes of women’s […]
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Celebrating a new platform to elevate the representation of African women leaders in the pursuit of peace, security, and development, the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) launched its New York Group of Friends at IPI on February 27th.Fatima K. Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the UN, gave some context to the significance […]
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Civil society played a pivotal role in the Arab uprisings. By reconfiguring the social contract in a region distinguished by gender inequality, these revolts brought the status of women to the fore, and equal citizenship became a central goal. Social actors were therefore particularly active in contesting the constitution-making processes that were launched.Based on field […]
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“Art is love and love is peace—art is the international language to convey a message,” Syrian painter Rehab Bitar told an IPI-MENA audience at the May 15th opening of an exhibition of artwork conveying messages of peace. Ms. Bitar, the Head of Peace and Culture Bridges Organization in the United States, was one of seventeen […]
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Ayodele Odusola, UNDP’s Chief Economist for Africa, made this observation at an IPI policy forum, co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United Nations, on March 15th, 2017 on “Peace and the Gender Gap: Women’s Economic Empowerment in Fragile Communities.”“Africa loses $95 billion a year by not fully engaging women […]
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A growing body of evidence reveals the central role of gender in both peace and development. The economic empowerment of women gives them the resources, status, and networks required to enter the public sphere, to launch political campaigns or engage in civic activism. Gender equality is closely linked to peacefulness and violence prevention, and lays […]
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With the adoption of the General Assembly and Security Council resolutions on sustaining peace and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a multilateral policy consensus is emerging around a common vision for peaceful societies. These global frameworks treat prevention as an integral part of effective and participatory governance and view peace as both an enabler […]
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Over the past two decades, an abundance of legal and policy frameworks in the multilateral system have focused on women’s security and empowerment. Women, however, continue to be poorly represented in formal peacemaking activities, and they suffer disproportionately from the indirect effects of conflict. The credibility of the multilateral system itself depends on progress in […]
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