Implementing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda and Reducing Armed Violence - Global Alliance on Armed Violence
This paper draws on inputs from nearly 30 contributors from around the world – Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Oceania. They include grassroots activists, global level experts, peace negotiators, former MPs, researchers, academics and civil society champions. The paper makes a case for broadening ways the WPS agenda is applied, so to tackle various manifestations of violence – including violence conflict, non-conflict armed violence, IPV to violent extremism – their gender dimensions and weapons use. It draws on recent evidence on violence and violent deaths, and normative frameworks to promote cohesive WPS policy linked to agendas for arms control, gun control, disarmament, and armed violence reduction and prevention (AVRP).
Country / Region:
Africa
Europe
Asia
Americas
Australia
Thematic Focus:
General Women, Peace and Security
Conflict Prevention
Disarmament
Participation
Human Rights
Implementation
Date of Paper:
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Organization / institution website:
Contact person email:
nicola.williams@allianceonarmedviolence.org
Contact person phone number:
(+)65 85 123 424
Responsible for submission:
Nicola Williams
Strategic recommendation(s):
- Calls for strengthened national and global data collection practices for WPS via mandated institutions and with specific approaches to disaggregation.
- Recent evidence on different forms of violence and violent deaths, gender dimensions, and global weapons circulation.
- Focus on masculinities and the need to account for men and boys in improved gender analysis.
- Calls to apply WPS norms more widely to tackle different forms of violence and in situations not classified as ‘armed conflict’, including in donor countries.
- Focus on the prevention pillar which looks at different forms of violence (political, criminal to violent extremism), gender dimensions, and ways to strengthen small arms controls, including by harmonising domestic violence laws and gun laws. This area also includes recommendations to harmonise NAPs on WPS with ATT implementation.
- Recommendations on the protection of the rights of survivors of armed violence and how these issues should be dealt with in peace agreements.
- Recommendations on holistic approaches to SGBV based on evidence and trends, and in response to the focus on ‘conflict related sexual violence’.
- Attention on PMSCs, accountability and human rights issues, and ways to strengthen regulatory frameworks, including via WPS national policy provisions.
- A focus on civilian disarmament, demilitarisation and building cultures of peace in post-war recovery efforts.
- Recommendations to connect development and WPS agendas via Sustainable Development Goals and measuring and monitoring systems.
