“How the UN System Can Advance Tangible Results on Women’s Participation in Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding by 2030”

Options Paper for United Nations Executive Committee

July 2024

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"The Global Pushback on Women’s Rights: The State of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda”

Issue brief co-authored with Gretchen Baldwin for IPI, September 2019

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"Advocacy and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda"

Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security, S.E.Davies and J. True (Eds) (New York: Oxford University Press), 2019

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"Women, Peace and Security and the UN Security Council"

Chapter (co-author), United Nations Global Study on Women, Peace and Security, October 2015

"In principle, the Council has a conflict prevention role where the encouragement of women’s participation— both as a pillar and contributing factor—could significantly enhance conflict prevention. In practice, however, the Council’s conflict prevention toolbox has been underutilized. The Security Council has rarely acted to proactively prevent conflict, and instead has focused largely on protection concerns, as reflected across its body of work."

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“A Gentleman’s Agreement”: Women’s Participation in Burma’s Peace Negotiations and Political Transition

This report examines women’s participation in peace efforts in Burma and the devastating impacts of the country’s wars on women. Women have been almost entirely absent from nearly four years of peace negotiations to end the fighting in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi heads the National League for Democracy, and a few other women hold leadership positions in groups involved in these negotiations, but there have been only 10 women among 195 senior delegates in 8 major peace efforts since 2012.

 

“Our Rights are Fundamental to Peace”: Slow Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) Denies the Rights of Women and Girls in Armed Conflict

The report, released in advance of the 15th anniversary of the UN Security Council's landmark resolution 1325, examines shortcomings in government and UN action on resolution 1325, including the continued exclusion of women from peace negotiations and the persistence of sexual violence with little access to assistance. It draws on Human Rights Watch field research and interviews with women and girls since 2012 in Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Libya, Nepal,Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda.  

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​"Mapping Women, Peace and Security in the UN Security Council: Report of the NGOWG Monthly Action Points for 2012-13"

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Co-author - Policy Report: Annual comprehensive assessment of the UN Security Council's work on women, peace and security on thematic issues and country situations, from 1 August 2012-31 July 2013. Qualitative analysis of country reports, meetings, presidential statements, and resolutions, evaluating the degree to which the UNSC is meeting its WPS obligations. NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security (NGOWG), New York, NY, December 2013

 

"Women, Peace and Politics at the UN Security Council"

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Analytical article on opportunities and obstacles for the UN Security Council's full implementation of the women, peace and security agenda. Discussing political realities in the Council, current policy frameworks, and the broad scope of the WPS agenda, the article makes the case that the Council's legitimacy is dependent on its ability to truly meet these obligations to women, men, and children whose lives have been upended by conflict. IPI - Global Observatory, New York, NY, 17 July 2013

 

"Incorporating a Women, Peace and Security Lens into Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Programmes and Priorities"

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Chapter in Civil Society and Disarmament 2012: Applying a Disarmament Lens to Gender, Human Rights, Development, Security, Education, and Communication: Six Essays, United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs edited volume, New York, NY, 2012

 

"Monthly Action Points on Women, Peace and Security"

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Policy Briefs - Co-author; editor

Published monthly: November 2009 – April 2014, NGOWG, New York, NY"Women and Security" 

 

"Mapping Women, Peace and Security in the UN Security Council: Report of the NGOWG Monthly Action Points for 2009-2010"

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Policy Report - lead author

NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security (NGOWG), New York, NY, October 2010

 

"Women and Security"

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Encyclopedia Entry, The Encyclopedia of Political Science Set, by George T Kurian (Editor), James E Alt (Editor), Simone Chambers (Editor), Geoffrey Garrett (Editor), Margaret Levi (Editor), Paula D Mcclain (Editor), Sage/CQ, 1801 Pages, Published 2010

 

"A Better Peace? Including Women in Conflict Negotiations"

Doctoral Dissertation

A comparative project on the participation of high-level women negotiators in the conflict resolution processes in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Chiapas, Mexico. 

 

"Mothering the Fatherland: Nationalism and Gender in Eastern Europe"

Masters Thesis

A comparative study of the use of gender in the construction of nationalism in Romania and Yugoslavia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. 

 

"Sex, Violence, and Futbol: Maribel, FIFA, and the President of Harvard"

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Article

Canon Magazine, Spring 2005, New School for Social Research