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Peace Research Institute Oslo
From conceptualization to implementation: women in peacebuilding revisited
Research Challenges on Women , Peace and Security, 11-12 November 2010
Torunn L. Tryggestad
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Women, Peace and Security
Open debate of UN Security Council 2010:• Reinforced political commitment• Record number of statements• Record number of high level officials• Hillary Clinton:– “Women’s inclusion in the work for peace is
a necessary global security imperative”
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The UN Peacebuilding Architecture
Three components:• The UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)– Inter-governmental body – 31 members (Organisational
Committee)– Country configurations– Working Group on Lessons Learned
• The UN Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)– Headed by Assistant Secretary-General– Supportive function to the PBC
• The UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF)– “seeks to minimize the risk of relapse into conflict by
addressing the most immediate challenges facing post-conflict countries”
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The UN Peacebuilding Architecture
Mandate of the Peacebuilding Commission:• Provide advice on how to develop integrated
strategies for post-conflict peacebuilding• Marshal resources for post-conflict recovery
activities• Improve the international community’s attention
to countries in a precarious post-conflict phase• Improve coordination at the strategic level
among all actors involved in peacebuilding activities
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The UN Peacebuilding Architecture
Research findings:• Provisions of Resolution 1325 was surprisingly well
integrated– Formative resolutions– Separate thematic meetings– Field missions met with women’s organisations– Language on women and women’s concerns
integrated into peacebuilding strategies for first two countries on the PBC agenda (Burundi and Sierra Leone)
– Gender advisor at PBSO– PBF funded women’s projects
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The UN Peacebuilding Architecture
Research findings:
• The PBC Working Group on Lessons Learned:– “the integration of a gender perspective is a key
principle and element of peacebuilding”– “resolution 1325 constitutes a normative
framework that enjoys widespread acceptance”
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Women and Peacebuilding – two years on
• Secretary-General’s report on peacebuilding–Hardly any mentioning of women• Separate report on women and peacebuilding– Peacebuilding agenda?–Women’s agenda?
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Women and Peacebuilding – The Report
• Programming and budgetting: have failed to translate political commitment and guidance material into gender sensitive projecs• Only low percentage of budgets are allocated
to women’s needs and the advancement of women• Efforts must be accelerated • Women as ’add on’ is still prominent
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Women and Peacebuilding
Five recurring priorities of peacebuilding:• Safety and security• Confidence in the political process through inclusive
dialogue and elections• Access to basic services such as water and education• Functioning public administration • Economic revitalisation
• Highly relevant - also for women – but not analysed and planned from gendered perspective
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Research Challenges
• Too much research conducted by women’s NGOs and advocacy groups – easy target of criticism
• More field based research is needed conducted by trained researchers
• Pairing of feminist researchers with mainstream (male) researchers
• Fascilitate dialogue between mainstream scholars and policy makers within the peace and security field and scholars and activists within women/feminist studies
• More research on the gendered dimensions of peace and conflict – also focus on men.
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