"This book examines the position of women in formal peace making in the context of UNSC Resolution 1325. It asks if the resolution, passed seventeen years ago, has been consigned to the domain of rhetoric, or whether it still has practical significance"-- Provided by publisher.

Redefining women's roles in international and regional law : the case of pre- and post-war peacebuilding in Liberia / Veronica Fynn Bruey -- The contribution of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 / Antal Berkes -- Faith matters in women, peace, and security practices / Elisabeth Porter -- Creating or improving a national action plan based on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 / Jan Marie Fritz -- Widowhood issues for implementation of UNSCR 1325 and subsequent resolutions on women, peace, and security / Margaret Owen -- The commodification of intervention : the example of the women, peace, and security agenda / Corey Barr -- Beyond borders and binaries : a feminist look at preventing violence and achieving peace in an era of mass migration / Aurora E. Bewicke -- The disconnection between theory and practice : achieving item 8b of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 / Onyinyechukwu Onyido -- Gender and feminism in the Israeli peace movement : beyond UNSCR 1325 / Amanda Bennett -- Conflict ghosts : the significance of UN Resolution 1325 for the Syrian women in years of conflict / Emanuela C. Del Re -- The UNSC Resolution 1325 and Cypriot women's activism : achievements and challenges / Maria Hadjipavlou and Olga Demetriou -- Victims, nationalists, and supporters : UNSCR 1325 and the roles of ethnic women's organizations in peacebuilding in Burma/Myanmar / Mollie Pepper -- Gender and the building up of many "peaces" : a decolonial perspective from Colombia / Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Yuly Andrea Mejía Jerez, and Rachel Tillman -- "It's all about patriarchy" : UNSCR 1325, cultural constraints, and women in Kashmir / Seema Shekhawat.