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WOMEN IN PEACE & SECURITY
THROUGH UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325:
LITERATURE REVIEW, CONTENT ANALYSIS
OF NATIONAL ACTION PLANS & IMPLEMENTATION
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The complex
challenges and opportunities of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, as
enunciated in United National Security Council Resolution 1325 of 2000, and
several subsequent resolutions, lend themselves to both a cup half full and a
cup half empty interpretation. The very phrase, the Women, Peace, and
Security Agenda (WPS, for short), is itself a sign of progress among
professionals working on global gender policy and programs around the world, as
it is increasingly accepted as an important mandate across a wide variety of
institutions, both public and private. On the downside, the WPS agenda is
clearly not a household term (widely known outside activist and policy
circles), nor is its foundational policy, United Nations Security Resolution
1325 (UNSCR 1325).
This Working
Paper looks at the Women, Peace and Security agenda as laid out in UNSCR 1325
and in six following Security Council Resolutions - UNSCR 1820, 1888, 1889,
1960, 2106 and 2122 (see Boxes 1 and 2) - to assess progress in the past decade
and a half since the adoption of UNSCR 1325 in 2000. We conducted an extensive
desk study of the existing literature on UNSCR 1325, performed a detailed
content analysis of 40 of the 42 existing 1325 NAPs, and offer an update on
implementation of Women, Peace, and Security goals more broadly. The Working
Paper is addresses three main questions:
· What does the social
science and related literature say about UNSCR 1325 since its adoption in 2000?
· What does content analysis
of National Action Plans (NAPs) in support of UNSCR 1325 reveal about the
effectiveness of such plans?
· What are examples of implementation of 1325 principles with and beyond 1325 NAPs?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section 1. UNSCR 1325: Progress and Challenges 1
Background on UNSCR 1325 .. 6
National Action Plans in support of UNSCR 1325 ...10
Worldwide Uptake of UNSCR 1325: What Do We Know?.............................................13
Review of General Studies: Books, Journal Articles, Chapters and Short Reports....14
Downsides of UNSCR 1325 15
What It Takes to Develop and Adopt a 1325 NAP. .17
Review of Country-level Studies ...18
Regional Organizations Support of UNSRC 1325 Principles ..20
Section 2. 1325 National Action Plans: Content Analysis 23
Content Analysis Framework . .. . 23
Categorizing and Analyzing 1325 NAP Elements . .. .26
Element Analysis ... ...29
Country Comparisons on 1325 NAP Specificity ... ...32
Revised National Action Plans: Lessons Learned ... .34
Civil Society Involvement and Specificity ... ..36
Section 3. Beyond 1325 NAPs: Broader Approaches to Strengthening Accountability for Implementing the WPS Agenda .39
Variant Implementation Strategies 39
Mainstreaming into Wider National Policies ...39
Financing Strategies ...41
Localization ..41
Strengthening Implementation and Accountability Measures ...42
1325 National Action Plans (NAPs) ... .42
Global Indicators ..46
"Borrowing" Human Rights Accountability 47
Reviewing Progress on Implementation 48
High-Level Review Planned for 2015 .48
Global Technical Review Meeting, 2013 49
Global Study for 2015 ..50
Promoting Womens Leadership as a Specific Focus:
Adoption of Resolution 2122 .51
Section 4. Conclusion and Moving Forward .53
Glossary .....55
Appendix A. General, Comparative Books about UNSCR 1325. ... .58
Appendix B. General, Comparative Journal Articles, Chapters, and Brief Reports about
UNSCR 1325 ..67
Appendix C. Country-level Studies of UNSCR 1325 ..79
Appendix D: Analysis of 1325 NAPs of 41 Countries ..82
Appendix E: Regional Action Plans 141
Appendix F: Content Analysis .148
References Cited ..149