Now What?
In the aftermath of war, many countries build on women’s organizing and resilience by focusing on expanding women’s rights. Some countries adopt political gender quotas to secure women’s presence in politics, or gender-sensitive justice reforms aimed at holding perpetrators of violence accountable. Others have adopted National Action Plans as part of the United Nations Women, Peace, and Security Agenda, which aims to include women in all stages of war-to-peace transition.
We wanted to know: are these reforms working? If so…
who benefits from post-war gender reforms and why?
In this first stage of the project we mapped gender-sensitive laws and reforms in the six countries in our study across five substantive areas: political representation; economic participation; criminal justice reform; family law reform and transitional justice. We selected these areas because they promised to have the most meaningful impacts for women’s peace and security after war.
WHAT DID WE LEARN?