Write an essay on the importance of Women’s role in conflict and frozen conflict settings.

Crisis, Conflicts and human rights, contemporary challenges

Write an essay on the importance of Women’s role in conflict and frozen conflict settings.

For those who want to get an overview of the WPS agenda, the final report of the 2015 UN Global Review of WPS is a good starting point: https://www.peacewomen.org/sites/default/files/UNW-GLOBAL-STUDY-1325-2015%20(1).pdf

The different resolutions and SC discussions can be accessed via the UN Women website: https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/women-peace-security, but the NGO Security Council Report is often more accessible and up to date: https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/women-peace-and-security/

Legal scholars who have written about WPS include Dianne Otto, Hilary Charlesworth and Catharine O’Rourke. There are many others as well, but if you pick up some articles by these authors, you can find more sources.

WPS is of course an inter-disciplinary subject, and scholars from different disciplines have written about WPS. One entry point is the London School of Economics WPS centre: http://www.lse.ac.uk/women-peace-security/about

http://www.unwomen.org/2011/10/women-peace-and-security/ UN Women)

http://www.unwomen.org/publications/un-women-sourcebook-on-women-peace-and-security/ (UN sourcebook on women, peace and security)

http://eeas.europa.eu/human_rights/women/peace/index_en.htm ((EU and women, peace and security)

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2001) on women, peace and security and follow-up resolutions

Convention against All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Universal Declaration for Human Rights (UDHR) –

International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

Chandra Leka Sriram and Olga Martin-Ortega. War, Conflict, Human Rights: Theory and Practice. Routledge, 2017.