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pdf A Practical Guide to Gender Transformative Approaches for Youth Peace Organisations Popular

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A Practical Guide to Gender Transformative Approaches for Youth Peace Organisations

Toolkit in a Nutshell

Despite the increasing understanding of the necessity to pursue gender justice and equity, gender work in peacebuilding is often perceived as an issue of secondary importance. This is especially true for youth organisations, which often lack resources and expert knowledge in gender equity work. There is also the widespread misconception that gender-responsive work only concerns women and girls’ issues. UNOY is conscious of the critical role gender plays in working with youth and peace; therefore, we have developed this toolkit to be leveraged as a resource for young people to be trained in gender transformative approaches (GTA) to peacebuilding initiatives and facilitate the implementation of their own GTA approach within their organisations.

This toolkit addresses gender from an intersectional approach. It takes into account sexuality, gender identity, and gender expression both in and out of the gender binary. It also understands that women, men and gender-diverse people do not make up homogenous groups, as gender does not exist separately from other core identity markers, such as race, class, and sexuality. So, this toolkit aims for greater inclusion of all people in peacebuilding efforts through a more transformative and expansive approach to gender (https://unoy.org/downloads/gta-toolkit/).

pdf Beyond Engaging Men: Masculinity, (Non)Violence, and Peacebuilding

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Beyond Engaging Men: Masculinity, (Non)Violence, and Peacebuilding

The research presented in this report contributes to bridging the gap between current WPS practices that focus mainly on women and a growing body of research that explores how efforts to improve the status of women are strengthened by engaging with men and masculinities. Our report is based on a survey conducted with partners in three conflict-affected contexts in Southeast Asia: Aceh and Maluku in Indonesia and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the Philippines. The report identifies the kinds of masculinity norms that are playing out in our three cases, how these masculinity norms are related to peace and violence, and how they shape women’s ability to access power.

pdf Breaking the gender trap: Challenging patriarchal norms to clear pathways for peace Popular

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Breaking the gender trap: Challenging patriarchal norms to clear pathways for peace

Patriarchal social norms fundamentally shape global, national and local power structures and institutions and consistently prevent pathways to positive peace.

In societies across the world, power is held by men, through cultural norms and customs that favour men and withhold opportunity from women. Such patriarchal norms create narrow and limiting definitions of masculinities and femininities (what it means to be a man or a woman), which leads to gender inequality and trap women in social roles that are subjugated, marginalised and precarious.

As culturally ingrained aspects of society, both women and men reinforce and suffer from the impacts of these rigid roles and behaviours.

International Alert’s latest research in Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Nigeria and the Philippines has found that peacebuilding is compromised by restrictive patriarchal understandings of gender roles. Each of these countries has developed national action plans on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, yet each has struggled to promote meaningful and sustainable gender equality because they are missing programming that transforms discriminatory gender norms.

Our research finds that patriarchal norms must be placed at the heart of peacebuilding to achieve sustainable peace.

(https://www.international-alert.org/publications/breaking-the-gender-trap-challenging-patriarchal-norms-to-clear-pathways-for-peace/?utm_source=Updates&utm_campaign=ff8f5fedcb-breaking-gender-trap-may&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cb76d31be9-ff8f5fedcb-)

pdf From transition to transformation: Strengthening women’s effective participation in peacebuilding and transitional justice processes: insights from Colombia, Nepal, and the Philippines. Popular

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From transition to transformation: Strengthening women’s effective participation in peacebuilding and transitional justice processes: insights from Colombia, Nepal, and the Philippines.

This publication presents insights from Colombia, Nepal, and the Philippines in strengthening women’s effective participation in formal peacebuilding processes from the perspective of feminist and women’s organisations.

pdf Gender thematic review 2021 23 nov Popular

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Gender thematic review 2021 23 nov

The 2021 Thematic Review on Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding, commissioned by the UN Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) in partnership with German Federal Foreign Office and UN Women, maps good practices, gaps, challenges, emerging trends and priorities for action in gender-responsive peacebuilding. The Review draws on field-level consultations with women’s organizations in Guatemala, Mali, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sri Lanka; key informant interviews with policymakers, academics, and UN staff carried out between April and June 2021; and a review of academic, practitioner and policy literature, as well as UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) project documents, evaluation reports and guidance notes. The Thematic Review provides practical recommendations for policymakers, donors, the PBF and its fund recipients on:

  • Strengthening the language of diversity and intersectionality in Women, Peace and Security (WPS) policy discourse;
  • Enhancing the WPS Global Indicator Framework;
  • Strengthening peaceful and gender-sensitive responses to the COVID-19 pandemic;
  • Increasing support to women’s civil society organizations by committing to capacity building targets and providing flexible funding; and
  • Ensuring that rigorous monitoring and evaluation frameworks are in place, including improved metrics that go beyond ‘counting’ women and are sensitive to gendered definitions of a peacebuilding project success.

https://www.un.org/peacebuilding/content/gender-responsive-peacebuilding-2021

pdf Guidebook on CEDAW general recommendation no. 30 and the UN Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security Popular

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Guidebook on CEDAW general recommendation no. 30 and the UN Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security

The purpose of this Guidebook is to increase knowledge about general recommendation no. 30 and the Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security, and how these frameworks can be used to strengthen and reinforce each other. The Guidebook provides information on the content of the general recommendation and the Security Council resolutions and on the reporting and monitoring mechanisms. It includes a checklist for States parties reporting to the CEDAW Committee and also provides some examples of where the general recommendation and Security Council resolutions have been referred to in the CEDAW Committee’s concluding observations and lists of issues to States parties. The Guidebook also contributed to the global study on implementation of Security Council resolution 1325.

pdf Learning Misogyny in the Heart of Peacebuilders and Extremists Popular

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Learning Misogyny in the Heart of Peacebuilders and Extremists

A report from a two-day webinar of the same name organized by Walailak University Thailand, Iman Research Center Malaysia, and AMAN.