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, including protection against sexual and gender-based violence, promotion of women's participation in peace and security processes, and support for women's roles as peace builders in the prevention of conflict and rebuilding of societies after conflict. Implementation within and across states and international organizations - and within peace and security operations - has been slow despite significant transnational advocacy in support of the WPS agenda. 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 drawing on women's experiences and knowledge of building peace from local to global levels. Just as importantly, it addresses the gaps in knowledge on and the future direction of scholarship on WPS. The handbook particularly aims to build on the findings from the 2015 Global Study of Resolution 1325, commissioned by the UN-Secretary General.
Over the course of six sections, the handbook addresses the concepts and early history behind WPS; the theory and practice of WPS; international institutions involved with the WPS agenda; the implementation of WPS in conflict prevention, peace operations, peace building, arms control, human-rights protection, and protection of civilians; connections between WPS and other UN resolutions and agendas; and the ongoing and future challenges of WPS.

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.

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Part I. Concepts of WPS
1. Women, Peace, and Security: A Transformative Agenda?
Sara E. Davies and Jacqui True
2. Peace and Security from a Feminist Perspective
J. Ann Tickner
3. Adoption of 1325 Resolution
Christine Chinkin
4. Civil Society's Leadership in Adopting Resolution 1325
Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
5. Scholarly Debates and Contested Meanings of WPS
Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin and Nahla Valji
6. Advocacy and the WPS Agenda
Sarah Taylor
7. WPS as a Political Movement
Swanee Hunt and Alice Wairimu Nderitu
8. Locating Masculinities in WPS
Henri Myrttinen
9. WPS and Adopted Security Council Resolutions
Laura J. Shepherd
10. WPS and Gender Mainstreaming: Practice, Purpose, and Problems
Karin Landgren
11. The Production of the 2015 Global Study
Louise Olsson and Theodora-Ismene Gizelis

Part II. Pillars of WPS
12. WPS and Conflict Prevention
Bela Kapur and Madeleine Rees
13. What Works in Participation
Thania Paffenholz
14. What Works (and Fails) in Protection
Hannah Dönges and Janosch Kullenberg
15. What Works in Relief and Recovery
Jacqui True and Sarah Hewitt
16. Where the WPS Pillars Intersect
Marie O'Reilly
17. WPS and Female Peacekeepers
Natasja Rupesinghe, Eli Stamnes, and John Karlsrud
18. WPS and SEA in Peacekeeping Operations
Jasmine-Kim Westendorf
19. WPS and Peacekeeping Economies
Kathleen M. Jennings
20. WPS in Military Training and Socialization
Helena Carreiras and Teresa Fragoso
21. WPS and Policing: New Terrain
Bethan Greener
22. WPS, States, and the National Action Plans
Mirsad Miki Jacevic

Part III. Institutionalizing WPS
23. WPS inside the United Nations
Megan Dersnah
24. WPS and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict
Eleanor O'Gorman
25. WPS and Human Rights Council
Rashida Manjoo
26. WPS and International Financial Institutions
Jacqui True and Barbro Svedberg
27. WPS and the International Criminal Court
Jonneke Koomen
28. WPS and North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Stéfanie von Hlatky
29. WPS and the African Union
Toni Haastrup
30. WPS and the Association of South East Asian Nations
Ma. Lourdes Veneracion-Rallonza
31. WPS and Pacific Islands Forum
Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls and Sian Rolls
32. WPS and Organization of American States
Mary K. Meyer McAleese
33. WPS and Civil Society
Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic
34. WPS and Transnational Feminist Networks
Joy Onyesoh

Part IV. Implementing WPS
35. Delivering WPS Protection in All Female Peacekeeping Force: The Case of Liberia
Sabrina Karim
36. Securing Participation and Protection in Peace Agreements: The Case of Colombia
Isabela Marín Carvajal and Eduardo Álvarez-Vanegas
37. WPS and Women's Roles in Conflict-Prevention: The Case of Bougainville
Nicole George
38. Women in Rebellion: The Case of Sierra Leone
Zoe Marks
39. Protecting Displaced Women and Girls: The Case of Syria
Elizabeth Ferris
40. Donor States Delivering on WPS: The Case of Norway
Inger Skjelsbæk and Torunn L. Tryggestad
41. WPS as Diplomatic Vocation: The Case of China
Liu Tiewa
42. Women Controlling Arms, Building Peace: The Case of the Philippines
Jasmin Nario-Galace
43. Where Pillars Intersect (or Fail): The Case of WPS in Afghanistan
Claire Duncanson and Vanessa Farr
44. Mainstreaming WPS in the Armed Forces: The Case of Australia
Jennifer Wittwer

Part V. Cross-Cutting Agenda? Connections and Mainstreaming
45. WPS and Responsibility to Protect
Alex J. Bellamy and Sara E. Davies
46. WPS and Protection of Civilians
Lisa Hultman and Angela Muvumba Sellström
47. WPS, Children, and Armed Conflict
Katrina Lee-Koo
48. WPS, Gender, and Disabilities
Deborah Stienstra
49. WPS and Humanitarian Disasters
Sarah Martin and Devanna de la Puente
50. WPS, Migration, and Displacement
Lucy Hall
51. WPS and LGBTI Rights
Lisa Davis and Jessica Stern
52. WPS and CEDAW, Optional Protocol, and General Recommendations
Catherine O'Rourke with Aisling Swaine
53. Women's Roles in CVE
Sri Wiyanti Eddyono with Sara E. Davies
54. WPS and Arms Trade Treaty
Ray Acheson and Maria Butler
55. WPS and Sustainable Development Goals
Radhika Balakrishnan and Krishanti Dharmaraj
56. WPS and the Convention against Torture
Andrea Huber and Therese Rytter
57. WPS and Climate Change
Annica Kronsell

Part VI. Ongoing and Future Challenges
58. Global Study: Looking Forward
Radhika Coomaraswamy and Emily Kenney
59. Measuring WPS: A New Global Index
Jeni Klugman
60. Pursuing Gender Security
Aisling Swaine
61. The Challenge of Foreign Policy in the WPS Agenda
Valerie M. Hudson and Lauren A. Eason
62. Networked Advocacy
Yifat Susskind and Diana Duarte
63. Women's Peacemaking in South Asia
Meenakshi Gopinath and Rita Manchanda
64. WPS, Peace Negotiations, and Peace Agreements
Karin Aggestam
65. The WPS "Agenda": A Postcolonial Critique
Swati Parashar
66. The WPS Agenda and Strategy for the Twenty-First Century
Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
67. The Challenges of Monitoring and Analyzing WPS for Scholars
Natalie Florea Hudson
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