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Creating Cinderella? The Unintended Consequences of the Women Peace and Security Agenda for the EU's Mediation Architecture

Haastrup, Toni (2018) Creating Cinderella? The Unintended Consequences of the Women Peace and Security Agenda for the EU's Mediation Architecture. International Negotiation, 23 (2). pp. 218-237. ISSN 1382-340X. (doi:10.1163/15718069-23021150) (KAR id:64540)

Abstract

In 2000, the United Nations (UN) launched the Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda by adopting Security Council Resolution 1325. The agenda, among other things, called for the greater inclusion of women in peace negotiations practices and structures. While the European Union (EU) has made commitments to implementing the WPS agenda, the literature has not yet captured the institutional dynamics of the EU as it seeks to translate the WPS agenda into reality. This article takes stock of this hitherto excluded area of research. It argues that mediation is the ‘Cinderella’ of the EU’s peace and security institution, because it has been ignored as a site for the implementation of the WPS agenda, with important implications. Using a feminist institutionalist framework, the article shows the ways in which institutional practices of change aimed at including the new perspectives prompted by the WPS agenda leads to unintended gendered consequences

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1163/15718069-23021150
Projects: The EU as International Mediator
Uncontrolled keywords: international mediation, gender, WPS agenda, EU
Subjects: J Political Science > JN Political institutions and public administration (Europe)
J Political Science > JZ International relations
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Funders: [37325] UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User: Toni Haastrup
Date Deposited: 19 Nov 2017 17:35 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 19:17 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/64540 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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