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Accord Insight: Women building peace
Mar 2013
A list of selected Key Texts, Further Reading and Key Websites for reference.

Foreword

Accord Insight: Women building peace
Mar 2013
Zahbia Yousuf and David Newton provide a foreword to the publication, introducing the new Accord Insight paper and elaborating on the structure and rationale of the publication.

Accord Insight: Women building peace

Accord Insight: Women building peace
Mar 2013
The wealth of women's peacebuilding practice documented in the Accord series sheds light on what women peacebuilders have done to overcome conflict. The case studies of this Accord Insight focus on specific contexts, yet also provide three general insights for peacebuilding practitioners and policymakers: women's efforts can broaden the scope of peacebuilding; overcoming challenges to political participation is vital; understanding gender relations is key to building sustainable peace.

Accord Insight: Women building peace

Mar 2013

Global policy highlights the importance of women’s participation in peace processes and peacebuilding. Yet the impact of international commitments is not felt on the ground. Most peace agreements do not address the specific concerns of women. And women are still excluded from political processes.

Sexual violence in conflict: Guidance for mediators

Jan 2012

The United Nations is enlisting its peace envoys in stepped-up efforts by the organisation to combat the scourge of sexual violence in warfare, unveiling new guidelines to help mediators address the problem in peace agreements and ceasefires.

The development of the guidelines, by the Department of Political Affairs, complements efforts by other UN entities to combat this serious security threat and impediment to peace.

Dialogue on international responses to UN Resolutions and Philippine Action Plan on women, peace and security

Oct 2011
This summary presents the first meeting in the Conciliation Resources-led process of drafting an international action plan on women peace and security in response to UN Security Council Resolutions and the Philippines National Action Plan.

Conflict termination - Trends, challenges (new approaches?)

Apr 2011
Positive quantitative developments in peace processes need to be followed by increasing the quality of the peace agreements. This power point presentation by Conciliation Resources provide an overview of trends and challenges in conflict termination.

10 points on 10 years of UNSCR 1325 in Europe

Dec 2010
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 champions the contribution women make to peace and security. Civil society organisations explain in this paper how Europe can do more to implement it.

Meeting on women’s participation in peace processes

Nov 2010
Women are fundamental to conflict resolution work. Kristian Herbolzheimer of Conciliation Resources expands on this in light of other general trends at a meeting about women's participation in peace processes.

Dili declaration: A new vision for peacebuilding and statebuilding

Apr 2010
As fragile states face massive challenges in trying to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, representatives at the 2010 International Dialogue meeting in Dili make this declaration.

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