Sara E. Davies is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. She is also co-founder and co-editor of quarterly issued international journal Global Responsibility to Protect.
Jacqui True is Professor of Politics & International Relations and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. She is also an editorial board member of International Feminist Journal of Politics; International Studies Review; Global Responsibility to Protect; Political Science; and Women, Politics & Policy. She is the author of The Political Economy of Violence Against Women and co-editor of Scandalous Economics.

Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. This agenda is a significant international normative and policy framework addressing the gender-specific impacts of conflict on women and girls. The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security brings together scholars, advocates, and policymakers to provide an overview of what we know concerning what works to promote women's participation in peace and security, what works to protect women and girls from sexual and gender-based violence and other human rights violations, and what works to prevent conflict and rebuild societies after conflict drawing on women's experiences and knowledge of building peace from local to global levels.