Coping with Crises, Ending Armed Conflict

On the 10th Anniversary of UN Resolution 1325

Documentation of the international Conference October 28-30, 2010

Ten years after the adoption of UN Resolution 1325 “Women, Peace and Security”, the Gunda Werner Institute (GWI) of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in cooperation with the German Women’s Security Council and Peace Women Across the Globe hosted an international conference with three main aims. In the first part of the conference, we took critically stock of the implementation of Resolution 1325, and asked about the relevance of this universal tool for specific country cases on the ground. In the second part, we looked beyond the mere implementation of the resolution and enhance the analysis of gender dynamics in conflict. We inquired both about sexualised violence and the construction of masculinities in conflict, as well as the abuse of feminist projects to legitimise armed intervention. In the third part, we discussed political strategies with major political stakeholders in order to place the problems discussed at the conference on the agenda of the international community.

Lessons Learned – Panels: Implementation of the UN Resolution 1325

Lessons Learned – Workshops / 1325 and Future Perspectives

Does Research on Masculinity Undermine a Feminist Agenda?

At the level of intuition we possess a shared stock of knowledge about what this means and how to achieve it, and we have a sophisticated language with which to communicate our beliefs, aspirations and hopes in meeting this agenda.

By Dr. Paul Higate

Members of the British Coldstream Guards display a very different kind of military masculinity when parading in front of Buckingham Palace in bearskin hats compared to when on patrol in Afghanistan

Masculinities, Conflict and UNSCR 1325

Henri Myrttinen's plea for a linking of the three levels, the theoretical, political and practical, in the debate about gender, masculinity, and the implementation of Resolution 1325.

By Henri Myrttinen

Does work on masculinities undermine feminist approaches?

Input on panel discussion with Paul Higate, Department of Politics, University of Bristol, U.K., and Henri Myrttinen, International Affairs Consultant and Contractor, Germany, on 29.10.2010.

The UN Security Council signed the UN resolution 1888 in 2009, which also deals with sexualized violence in war.

Sexualized Violence against Men and Boys: Security Council Resolutions 1325, 1820 and 1888

In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to the serious problem of sexual violence perpetrated in armed conflicts.

Despite the rhetoric of women’s rights and women’s empowerment, women’s rights was the first to be negotiated away and fall in the context of political bargaining and power games

Embedded Feminism- Women’s Rights as a Justification for War

Al-Ali's contribution to the public panel discussion: "Embedded Feminism": Women’s rights as justification for military intervention.

By Nadje Al-Ali

3 Women at the Security-Council Women, Peace and Security

‘Embedded Feminism’: Women’s rights as justification for military intervention?

Presentation in the context of the international conference held by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, ‘Coping with Crises, Ending Armed Conflict - Peace promoting Strategies of Women and Men’

By Helmut W. Ganser

Results protocolls of the workshops

Here you find the results protocolls of the workshops on Israel/Palistine, Liberia, Afghanistan, Caucasus and Irak.

Visions, Conclusions, Perspectives

Men and women in conflict management – strategies, requests, visions: what answers can politics provide?

Conflict management has many different angles. As a small donor country, we need to focus on certain priorities where we can make a difference.

By Katelijn De Nijs

UN disarmament programm in Cote d´Ivoire

A military-free world is possible

In the year 2030 the states of the world agree to abolish their national armies. Instead there will be a permanent UN troops, which secures the world peace. Washington’s ambassador raised minute-long ovations and the UN general secretary appreciates the convention as "a milestone in the history of civilization".

By Andreas Zumach

Women in Côte d'Ivoire Celebrate International Women's Day

A gender-equitable world is possible

After a group of renowned female Noble Prize winners, economists and peace women made a political breakthrough with their memorandum, the UN organizations and member states took several measures to implement it. Across the world hunger, poverty, violence and environmental disasters decreased. A vision of

By Dr. Ute Scheub

Women of Lunavada walking to their workplace

The Urgency of a Feminist South

Because each index showed that the neo-liberal globalization produced inequality, the global south decided to promote sustainable and independent development. Since then, girls are not excluded from school any more, minorities are not threatened and from the minimum wage can one live.

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