NORMATIVE FRAME OF WOWEN, PEACE AND SECURITY AGENDA
Keywords:
Women, Peace, Security, Agenda, Normative, ResolutionAbstract
Women, peace, and security (WPS) represents a policy framework aimed at raising awareness on the
critical need for women to be viewed and to be included as key actors, if we are to achieve sustainable peace and
security. The main idea of the WPS is raising awareness about the gender equality, and subsequently including the
women in each stage of the peace process. The purpose of the paper is to elaborate shortly and closely on the
guiding documents and the normative frame of the WPS agenda: UN Declaration on Human Rights (1948),
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, 1979), World
Conferences on Women (1975-95), UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on WPS (2000). The landmark resolution
of the WPS agenda, 1325, has four pillars: prevention, participation, protection and peacebuilding and recovery. In
an attempt of supporting the WPS agenda, global partnerships and alliances have been formed by different UN
bodies, UN member states, non-state actors and the civil society. There is a common impression that out of all UN
resolutions, the Resolution 1325 on WPS is most known. The resolution and the agenda have been supplemented by
other nine UNSC resolutions, sometimes referred as WPS UNSCRs. UN and its many partners on different levels
are continuously pushing forward the agenda, insisting on inclusion of women in the matters of peace and security.
Besides that, UN and its partners are fully committed to preventing and protecting women and girls in any conflict.
A tremendous great deal of job in moving the WPS agenda forward is done by the civil society. And it looks like we
have learned the lesson: the civil society has been one of the key actors in negotiating the UN SDGs 2030. However,
not only the UN and civil society, but also other international organizations have put the WPS agenda high on their
priority list. NATO has responded with creating mechanisms aimed at implementing resolutions on WPS. One such
mechanism are National Action Plans on implementing UNSCR 1325 and other documents which are part of the
WPS agenda. OSCE and EU are also providing huge support to moving forward.
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