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The women, peace and security resolutions have consistently called for women's increased participation at all levels in institutions and mechanisms for preventing, managing, and resolving conflict. Despite a long history of feminist interventions to disrupt categories of gender as a stagnant, ahistorical, or geographically consistent structure, rationales for women's inclusion continue to rest on problematic narratives and assumptions. We draw on twenty-nine interviews with practitioners we asked to speak about their experiences in peace negotiations and the expectations placed on women in the processes. The problematic narratives and assumptions we identify based on these interviews and academic literature have the effect of diminishing women's agency and, thus, their ability to participate in peace negotiations on their own terms. Women contribute positively to the durability of peace and the inclusion of gender provisions in agreements. Still, when women's identities are constructed as one-dimensional, the benefits of women's inclusion remain paradoxically a cause for celebration and a partial gain.
Author(s): Sapiano J, Jin X, Heathcote G
Publication type: Article
Publication status: In Press
Journal: International Affairs
Year: 2024
Volume: 100
Issue: 6
Acceptance date: 10/06/2024
ISSN (print): 0020-5850
ISSN (electronic): 1468-2346
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
