The UN’s otherwise transformative Women, Peace and Security agenda has a blind spot for corruption. Twenty-five years on from the UN’s landmark Resolution 1325, Ara Marcen Naval argues for integrating anti-corruption into the WPS agenda as an essential act of justice and protection. Twenty-five years after the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1325, the Women, … Continue reading From Blind Spot to Blueprint: Why tackling corruption is essential to the Women, Peace and Security agenda
25 Years of Women, Peace and Security in the UK: An opportunity to align feminist commitments at home and abroad
After a quarter-century of bipartisan British commitment to the Women Peace and Security agenda, the current Labour government suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. Toni Haastrup and Jamie J. Hagen make the case for reprioritising the feminist principles of gender equality and inclusion in UK policy. By Toni Haastrup and Jamie J. Hagen … Continue reading 25 Years of Women, Peace and Security in the UK: An opportunity to align feminist commitments at home and abroad
Human Security Must Remain on the NATO Agenda
Since 2022 NATO has endorsed a Human Security approach in relation to its core tasks. Yet its 2025 Summit fell silent on this, among many other issues. Alexander Gilder makes the case for why Human Security must stay on NATO’s agenda in order to bolster the Atlantic alliance’s legitimacy and effectiveness. With rising geopolitical tensions … Continue reading Human Security Must Remain on the NATO Agenda
The Evolution of Peacekeeping: A vision of human security partially fulfilled
For our series of ‘Stories of People- and Planet-Centred Cooperation’ we interviewed David Curran from Coventry University’s Research Centre for Peace and Security about the value and importance of UN peacekeeping, an area with a bold vision but a chequered record of achieving human and sustainable security. Most people are familiar with the blue helmets, … Continue reading The Evolution of Peacekeeping: A vision of human security partially fulfilled
Erased from Security: Why the 2025 SDR fails the Women, Peace and Security agenda
The Strategic Defence Review is sub-titled ‘Making Britain Safer’, so where is human security? Eva Tabbasam argues for the urgent recentring of the Women, Peace and Security agenda in UK defence and security strategies. Just days after attending the third annual Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Forum in Kosovo, themed The Security Code for Our … Continue reading Erased from Security: Why the 2025 SDR fails the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Joining the Dots: Lessons for peacebuilders navigating conflict, gender and climate change
Climate breakdown is accelerating and its interaction with conflict and gender relations is evolving in complex and destructive ways. Drawing on the experiences of conflict-affected communities in Kashmir, the Philippines and Uganda, Alastair Carr and Amy Dwyer propose several ways in which peacebuilding programmes can respond.
Reclaiming peace from patriarchal frameworks of security
Can talking about 'peace and security' be a tool of oppression? What if peace were taken to be a process that begins and ends in the body? Sofya Shahab and Chloe Skinner report on their work with women researchers in Palestine and Iraq to disentangle 'peace' from patriarchal framings of security and relocate it in bodily sensation.
Solidarity and Self-Definition: Can research processes build peace and security?
Understanding the lived experience of marginalised people in situations of violence and insecurity is vital for peace and conflict policy-makers and practitioners, but can being involved in participatory research also contribute to the well-being of conflict-affected people? Four Yezidi women from northern Iraq here reflect on their research into their own experience of and response to insecurity.