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Civil Society and Its Role Within UNSCR 1325 National Action Plans

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Jonjić-Beitter, Stadler and Tietgen trace the role that states assign to civil society with regard to the genesis, implementation as well as the monitoring and evaluation of their respective UNSCR 1325 National Action Plans (NAPs). Following ten clearly defined indicators, they analyse 96 NAPs from 64 countries and shed light on the manifold ways civil society is included in the documents—in a specific, nonspecific or highly specific manner. The descriptive analysis raises questions about the importance of civil society to be included in NAPs in order to fully implement UNSCR 1325 and the WPS agenda and lays the ground for further research aimed at giving recommendations for the development of inclusive NAPs that synchronise state and civil society efforts.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Even though UNSCR 1325 was adopted in 2000, the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security continued working on the topic and “took on an advocacy and watchdog role in relation to the actual implementation of 1325” (Tryggestad 2009: 548).

  2. 2.

    For further reading on the issue of the implementation of the WPS agenda on the global and regional level, see Barnes (2011: 21–25), Akter (2013: 4–7).

  3. 3.

    The terminology used in UNSCR 1325, including terms such as “expresses”, “requests” and “encourages”, is considered as much weaker than the terminology used in UN Security Council resolutions on “hard issues” like UNSCR 1373 that includes terms such as “decides” and “declares”; see also Swaine (2010: 410).

  4. 4.

    Even though the Security Council published 26 indicators to track the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in 2010 (S/2010/498).

  5. 5.

    See: S/PRST/2004/40; S/PRST/2005/52; S/2004/814; S/2008/622.

  6. 6.

    For the purpose of this study’s focus, the role of the entities of the UN system and other relevant actors will not be further discussed.

  7. 7.

    The only country so far that has already published a fourth NAP is the UK.

  8. 8.

    For the geographical distribution of NAPs, see “Methodological approach”.

  9. 9.

    UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.

  10. 10.

    See: Böhme et al. (2019), UN Women (2015: 303), Miller et al. (2014: 17).

  11. 11.

    This was described as an experience during a workshop on women, peace and security in 2017 by a participant who worked on the development of the Swedish NAP.

  12. 12.

    For further elaboration on the terms of CS being used in NAPs, please see “Methodological approach”.

  13. 13.

    This is a work in progress. Further research would involve translating missing NAPs and considering newly published ones.

  14. 14.

    Specific issues that occurred with coding “institutionalised cooperation” are described in Chapter “General affects”.

  15. 15.

    There are various other MAXQDA functions, of course, but they have not been relevant for our work so far.

  16. 16.

    These are: Austria (first NAP), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chile (first NAP), Denmark (first NAP), DRC, Gambia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Mali, the Netherlands (first NAP), Norway (first NAP), South Korea, Senegal, Spain, Sweden (first NAP), Togo, Uganda, the UK (first NAP), the USA (first and second NAP).

  17. 17.

    Ivory Coast.

  18. 18.

    Given the fact that no NAP from the African continent mentions civil society support in other countries, “all indicators” at this point exclude this very indicator.

  19. 19.

    See supra note 11.

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    Andrea Jonjić-Beitter

  2. Munich, Germany

    Hanna Stadler

  3. Reykjavík, Iceland

    Flora Tietgen

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Jonjić-Beitter, A., Stadler, H., Tietgen, F. (2020). Civil Society and Its Role Within UNSCR 1325 National Action Plans. In: Scheuermann, M., Zürn, A. (eds) Gender Roles in Peace and Security. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21890-4_10

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