Women and Peace and Security in the Time of Corona

Mar 25, 2020 | Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
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2020: It was always going to be a big year for the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda; twenty years since the UN Security Council’s adoption of resolution 1325, the first of the ten UN resolutions that put women front and centre of the global peace and security agenda; 20 years of activism and advocacy, of evolving academic scholarship and advances – albeit incremental – in diplomatic and development practices; 20 years of fighting against a mix of ad-hoc practices, apathy, and amnesia to get gendered analyses of crises and gender responsiveness in programming, to get systematic inclusion of women peacebuilders in peace processes, and to amplify the different perspectives, redefinitions, and priorities that women can bring to the very essence of the terms ‘peace’ and ‘security.’