Coherent and comprehensive approaches and strategies for implementing UNSCR 1325 become even more essential when considering the realities on the ground. There is still no critical mass of women peacebuilders and mediators engaged in formal track I peace processes. The number of women negotiators, witnesses and signatories to peace agreements still remains astonishingly low.
A UN Women (2012) review identified that, out of 31 major peace processes conducted since 1992: 4% of signatories of peace agreements were women; 2.4% of chief mediators were women; 3.7% of witnesses or observers to peace negotiations were women; 9% of negotiation team members were women.
At the same time, most local women peace activists on tracks II and III, drawing on their personal and political convictions, courageously tackle questions of social justice, human rights and genderbased violence (GBV). GBV is still a prominent feature of all violent conflicts and remains unaddressed in most peace negotiations and agreements. The work of local womens organisations and individual women peace activists on GBV, social justice and other peacebuilding issues has no formal mandate and is very often not linked to the official peace process. However, local and international networks and organisations 4 have made womens often invisible and unacknowledged work visible and have highlighted their contributions to the official peacebuilding processes.
Promoting women's participation in peace negotiations & Peace processes
Извор: WUNRN – 04.07.2014
