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

This UN DPPA, DPO and UN Women Options Paper provides UN senior leadership, including (D)SRSGs, and RCs/HCs, options and illustrative examples on how the UN system can advance tangible results in women’s participation in peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding by 2030.

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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

This issue brief takes stock of the state of the women, peace, and security agenda in the current geopolitical context, with a view to supporting strategic advances at the upcoming twentieth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000). It looks at characteristics of the current geopolitical context that are of concern to the defense of women’s rights, what these changes have meant for how the international community seeks to build peace and improve security, and how we can evaluate approaches to implementing WPS commitments in relation to these pressures on the multilateral system.

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Uniformed Women in Peace Operations: Challenging Assumptions and Transforming Approaches

Issue brief co-authored with Gretchen Baldwin for IPI

Provides an overview of how the UN and troop- and police-contributing countries are trying to integrate uniformed women into missions and how mission mandates interact with the women, peace, and security agenda. It also expounds upon expectations of uniformed women in peacekeeping operations, specifically regarding the protection of civilians, as well as structural barriers, taboos, and stigmas that affect uniformed women’s deployment experiences. 

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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. Focuses on the potential for UN Security Council action on the WPS agenda, including the recommendation for an Informal Expert Group. 

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

Women make up just over half of the population in Burma, but have been noticeably absent from  peace negotiations to end armed conflict in the country. Beyond women holding few, if any, senior positions in the parties involved in these negotiations, many women’s groups report being treated with disdain or as “spoilers” for pressing for the inclusion of women’s rights.

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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​

This report draws on Human Rights Watch field research and interviews with women and girls 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

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)

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Women, Peace and Politics at the UN Security Council

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

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

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

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Monthly Action Points on Women, Peace and Security

Policy Briefs - Co-author; editor

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

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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. 

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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. 

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