Inclusive Security, Sustainable Peace: A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action
Downloading the toolkit:
Background
Since UN Resolution 1325 was passed in 2000 we have held a series of policy-to-practice workshops with women’s organisations in conflict zones to help them advocate for their protection from human rights violations, and promote their participation in processes affecting their peace, security and development. The workshops have also been used to identify gaps in policy and develop recommendations for feedback to decision-makers at national, regional and international levels.
These meetings with women peacebuilders around the world indicated very strongly that there was a pressing need for easily accessible information on policies, international legal mechanisms and conflict issues, so that women could more effectively work to build peace. Together with Women Waging Peace, an independent US-based think-tank, we have therefore recently published Inclusive Security, Sustainable Peace: A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action; a resource for peace activists, advocates and practitioners in conflict-affected and post-conflict countries, and for policy makers and staff of major multilateral institutions, donor countries and international NGOS.
The toolkit is intended to enable women to engage in peacebuilding and security processes - and can be used as a reference guide, for training and awareness-raising; or to enhance understanding and the use of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and other relevant international agreements, instruments and institutions.
Inclusive Security, Sustainable Peace: A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action includes sections on:
It also has chapters on the following topics:
Conflict prevention, resolution and reconstruction
Justice, governance and civil society
Some chapters have been translated into Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish. Click on the links below to download these chapters:
We are now beginning a series of practical training workshops based on the toolkit, working with our regional programmes and their local partners to identify participants. These consultations will be adapted to support peacebuilding priorities in each region and used as an opportunity to disseminate the toolkit more widely.
Links:
For reports on our consultations with women peacebuilders around the world, click on the links below or contact Maria Olson for copies
Mapping report – Nepal order print copy
Mapping
report - South Caucasus
(this will open in a new window)
Mapping report – Nigeria (this will open in a new window)
Consultation
report – Nepal order print
copy
Consultation report - South Caucasus (this will open in a new
window)
Consultation report – Nigeria (this will open in a new window)
Consultation
report - South Asia order
print copy
Click here to download our report, Women Building Peace, Sharing Know-How which looks at the ways in which women engage in peacebuilding, looking at why they do it, what they’re trying to achieve, what strategies they use, how they measure impact. This is the result of a series of workshops designed to help women share strategies, concerns and techniques (this will open in a new window)
Click
here to see the online Gender and Conflict Transformation Course hosted by
the Dutch Network University, for which we produced a module on international
instruments related to the advancement of women and the promotion of their
rights as well as two case studies on the use of Resolution 1325 by women in
conflict zones (this will open in a new window).
For more information contact Maria Olson
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