KEY PUBLICATIONS FOR THE ESSENTIAL STUDY OF WOMEN, PEACE, AND SECURITY

摘要

The year 2020 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the formal beginning of the global initiative on women, peace, and security (WPS) introduced by the United Nations (UN) Security Council, when that body unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 in acknowledgment of the disproportionate and unique impact of armed conflict on women and girls. The year 2020 also will mark ten years of the Naval War College formally recognizing WPS as a program of effort.Today, Resolution 1325 is considered a watershed political framework highlighting that women and gender perspectives are relevant to negotiating peace agreements, planning refugee camps, developing programs for conflict inclusion, conducting peacekeeping operations, and reconstructing war-torn societies for sustainable peace. While the word "women" is part of the title of the resolution, the scope of the WPS field is not so narrow. The field no longer is regarded as just a gendered set of issues; replacing that singular scope are programs, ideas, and missions that are part of the global peace and security platform that involves all populations experiencing preconflict, conflict, and postconflict situations.