Inclusion

Gender Parity a sine qua non for sustainable peacebuilding.

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The majority of public leadership and decision-making roles, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and lots of prestigious positions have been patriarchal power dynamics. Women’s exclusion on general political, economic and social structure was almost non-existent, which gave a global concern and discussion.

In response to the concern of women’s inclusion, and most importantly, inhuman conditions leveled against women, the Women Conference in Mexico 1975, Nairobi in 1985, Beijing 1995, Copenhagen 1980 paved the way for resolution 1325; this became a milestone.

The UNSCR 1325, which concerns women, peace, and security, was a trailblazer to the new leadership era with the consciousness of gender inclusion. It opens an opportunity that showcases the potentials and crucial role women play in leadership, negotiation, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, conflict resolution, post-conflict reconstruction, and how conflict disproportionate affects women and girls.

The culture of gender inclusiveness recorded success in the peace process and conflict resolutions. U.N. Women, Global Survey on the Implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 13256, 50% of the peace process that involves women and civil society are likely to be sustainable than when excluded. Also, it noted that when women in charge of the peace process, there is a high tendency to be signed, executed, and 35% more likely to last for 15 years.

Women's participation has shown remarkable influences and the fact that the mainstream political framework of Women, Peace, and Security (WPS); which aims to increase women's participation, decision making, peacebuilding, and protection and respect for women’s rights. Yet, not much attention is given to the area of absolute decision-making. As noted by PeaceWomen 2021, the three fundamental hindrances to the success of Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) are inadequate accountability to implement, patriarchal and political underpinning, and militarism and militarization.

Policymakers identify the problem of implementation of WPS as “inadequate of political will” that shows the existence of a “siloed approach,” as stated by Kaptan, which is an area of concern.

The wave of COVID is calling now for different approaches and reflections on gender inequality and social injustice. There should be an entire movement of the discourse of resolution 1325 and not concentrate on some part while some (E.G., decision making) discussed sparingly.

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