UNSCR 1325: 15 year review

• Nahla Valji:  Briefing Paper 6/2015: UNSCR 2242 on Women, Peace and Security: Critical Elements and Progress
• Women and Peace Agreement Database (PA-X Women)

We are pleased and proud to launch our new database available at www.peaceagreements.org.  This database lists all the peace agreements between 1990 and present day which have provisions on women, gender or sexual violence, and provides full search features for what those provisions deal with.  Acknowledgements and Definitions will be posted for our launch on Thursday.

This database comprises part of PA-X, a peace agreement database which is intended to operate as a Peace Agreement Access Tool.  This database will give access to a definitive collection of peace agreements from 1990 to present day, which at present comprise around 1200 peace agreements in around 100 jurisdictions.  Its purpose is to enable research on peace agreement provisions, and to support those engaging in peace processes to access comparative information on how peace agreements deal with core issues of inclusion, human rights, and development.  The full database is scheduled for publication at the start of 2017.  The Women and Peace Agreement Database (PA-X Women) is a sub-database of all the agreements which include an explicit reference to women and gender, with searchable sub-categories.

Edinburgh LAUNCH DATE: 26 November 2015, to coincide with the Chyrstal MacMillan lecture and the Women, Peace and Security workshop.

Access Core documents associated with the UNSCR 1325 15 year review and PSRP and Consortium research cited therein:

Core documents

• Preventing Conflict, Transforming Justice, Securing the Peace: A Global Study on Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 2015
• UN Secretary General High Level Review
• UNSC Resolution 2422 (13 October 2015)

Political Settlements Research Programme and Consortium Work cited in global study and High Level Review (Quick Overview PDF)

• Christine Bell, “Text and Context: Evaluating Peace Agreements for Their ‘Gender Perspective’” (University of Edinburgh, Global Justice Academy, UN-Women, March 2015)
• Christine Bell, “Unsettling Bargains? Power-Sharing and the Inclusion of Women in Peace Negotiations” (University of Edinburgh, Political Settlements Research Programme, March 2015)
• Christine Bell and Helia Farahnoosh, “Chronology of the Peace Process and Peace Agreements between the Philippines and the National Democratic Front,” 2015
• Christine Bell and Vanessa Utley, “Chronology of Mindanao Peace Agreements,” 2015
• Christine Bell, Sissela Matzner, and Catherine O’Rourke, “A Chronology of Colombian Peace Processes and Peace Agreements,” 2015
• Fionnuala Ni Aolain, Catherine O’Rourke, Aisling Swaine, “Transforming Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Principles and Practice,” Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2015
• Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, “Gendered Harms and Their Interface with International Criminal Law,” International Feminist Journal of Politics 16, no. 4 (October 2, 2014)
•  Fionnuala N. Aolain, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Naomi R. Cahn, On the Frontlines: Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011)
• Catherine O’Rourke and Aisling Swaine, “Guidebook on CEDAW General Recommendation No. 30 and the UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security” (UN-Women, 2015)
• Aisling Swaine, “Assessing the Potential of National Action Plans to Advance Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325,” Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 12, December 2009
•  Eleanor O’Gorman, “Review of UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict 2007-2012 – Final Report” (PDF) (Cambridge, UK, January 2013)
• Megan Bastick and Kristen Valasek, “Converging Agendas: Women, Peace, Security and Small Arms,” in Small Arms Survey 2014: Women and Guns (Small Arms Survey, 2014)
•  Megan Bastick and Daniel de Torres, Implementing the Women, Peace and Security Resolutions in Security Sector Reform Toolkit (DCAF, OSCE/ODIHR, UN-INSTRAW, 2010)
•  Megan Bastick et. al, “Gender-Sensitive Police Reform in Post-Conflict Societies,” in UN Women Sourcebook on Women, Peace and Security (UN-Women, 2009)

PRSP Partners:

• Faiza Jama, “Somali Women and Peacebuilding,” in Women Building Peace, Accord Insight (Conciliation Resources, 2013).