Lyric Thompson is writing a series of articles covering the tenth anniversary of SCR 1325. Read her first report The politics of peace
Recent articles in the 5050 debate:
- Is it time for a worldwide strategy for the building of peace ?
- Within the hell of war lies a private hell
- Getting to peace: what kind of movement ?
- The challenge of moving from war to peace
- Resist, reclaim, restore: militarism no more
- Vital peace constituencies
- The meaning of peace in the 21st century
- Peacework: lessons we have failed to learn
- War and sexual violence: an issue of security
- The changing face of war
- Laureate Mairead Maguire: building deep democracy
- Laureate Jody Williams: telling it like it is
- What's wrong with a democratic world with justice,equality,development and peace?
In 2005, five years after UN Resolution 1325 gave women decision-making power to resolve conflict and build peace, openDemocracy asked what it had achieved. Read articles by women around the world here. Read the multi authored blog here.