Gretchen Baldwin and Marta Bertea
This month marks 24 years since the adoption of the landmark UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000), which was the first stand-alone resolution on mainstreaming gender into peace and security architecture at the multilateral level. Resolution 1325 and nine subsequent resolutions now constitute the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. The anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on the relevance of the WPS agenda today, understand the obstacles its advocates face, and evaluate progress and gaps in its implementation.
Implementation of the WPS agenda has ranged from efforts at the grassroots level towards social cohesion, gender equality and human security to trying to increase women’s participation (or at least representation) in security institutions and peace processes. Two fundamental questions persist in discussions of the WPS agenda’s future. First, should the focus be on expanding the agenda (most often understood as a new Security Council resolution) or strengthening implementation of the existing WPS-related resolutions? Second, how can the drift towards securitization and militarization in implementing the agenda be corrected?
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