RESOLUTION 1325 AND DDR: ENGENDERING DYSFUNCTIONALITIES
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2020-08-27
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By passing Resolution 1325 on Women and Peace and Security on the 31st of October 2000, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) acknowledged that women’s increased participation in conflict resolution and prevention, as well as their protection during conflicts, is highly required. Armed conflicts have serious implications on gender norms, identities and roles of both men and women. Despite the adoption of Resolution 1325 two decades ago, there are evident dysfunctionalities in the gender-oriented approach in Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programs. Peacebuilding literature focuses particularly on outcome-based findings. This thesis adopts a different approach and demonstrates that the dysfunctionalities of DDR programs can be traced back to the wording of Resolution 1325. The research incorporates the securitization theory and the subaltern theory to analyse the conceptualisations of peace and gender. It uses document-analysis to employ a process-tracing method by analysing the agenda-setting phase, the negotiation phase and the implementation phase and finds evidence for two arguments. First, UN Security Council actors’ narrow definition of peace and gender has resulted in the ignoring of economic and humanitarian dimensions, which are of importance to understand female ex-combatants’ special needs. Second, the dialogue on women in armed conflict used by actors dominant in the creation of Resolution 1325 shows a discourse of victimization because of a Western understanding of gender aspects.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen