{"id":11755,"date":"2020-04-22T17:57:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalpanorama.org\/2020\/04\/nato-and-women-peace-and-security\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T00:40:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:40:56","slug":"nato-and-women-peace-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalpanorama.org\/en\/2020\/04\/nato-and-women-peace-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO and Women, Peace and Security – Barbora Maronkova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beijing Platform for Action<\/a> is a landmark document that emanated from the Fourth World Conference on Women, convened in Beijing, China in September 1995. United Nations (UN) member states and civil society participants from around the world reviewed progress and outlined new requirements to accelerate gender equality and the empowerment of women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Platform for Action reaffirms the fundamental principle that the human rights of women and girls are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights. As an agenda for action, the Platform seeks to promote and protect the full enjoyment of all human rights and the fundamental freedoms of all women. One of the areas of importance for NATO has been the attention to women and armed conflict, foundation of which was laid by the UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325<\/a> in 2000. It was this resolution that first prompted the joint adaptation by the NATO and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) of the Policy and Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security<\/a> in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year 2020 will mark 20 years since the adoption of the UNSCR 1325. Though a lot has been done, much more work remains. Sustainable peace cannot be achieved without women\u2019s security and equality. Correlation between inclusion of women and peaceful resolution of conflicts has been shown many times whilst at the same time women still remain excluded from peace-making and other decision-making processes. Gender is still not fully considered across majority of national defence and security sectors, and women and children continue to suffer disproportionately as a result of conflict-related sexual abuse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Role of NATO <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NATO\u2019s first policy on the implementation of UNSCR 1325 was the adaptation of the above mentioned Policy and Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security<\/a> in 2007. Then in 2010, an Action Plan was adopted and subsequently revised at the NATO Wales Summit in 2014. The NATO Heads of State and Government acknowledged in Wales Summit<\/a> that the integration of \u201cgender perspectives into Alliance activities throughout NATO\u2019s three core tasks (i.e., Collective Defence, Crisis Management, and Cooperative Security) will contribute to a more modern, ready and responsive NATO\u201d (Para. 90, Wales Summit Declaration, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, the then NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen appointed the first NATO Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security, based with NATO\u2019s International Secretariat in Brussels. Later, in 2018, the NATO Heads of State and Government further reinforced their commitment in endorsing a new policy and Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security<\/a> (WPS) at the Brussels Summit. The new policy builds on a framework of three guiding principles: Integration, Inclusiveness and Integrity<\/em>. Accordingly;<\/p>\n\n\n\n