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13 Mich. J. Gender & L. 113 (2006-2007)
A Sign of Weakness - Disrupting Gender Certainties in the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325

handle is hein.journals/mjgl13 and id is 119 raw text is: A SIGN OF WEAKNESS? DISRUPTING GENDER CERTAINTIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325 CDianne Otto* INTRODUCTION • 114 1. THE BACKDROP OF A CENTURY OF WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISM FOR PEACE • 119 II. THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN'S INCLUSION AS EQUAL PARTICIPANTS IN CONFLICT-RELATED DECISION-MAKING 128 III. THE IMPACT OF RESOLUTION 1325 ON WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING IN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AND POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION 139 IV. REASSESSING ISSUES OF REPRESENTATION AND STRATEGY IN LIGHT OF EXPERIENCE WITH RESOLUTION 1325 • 157 CONCLUSION 173 One of the greatest challenges is harnessing the energy and activism that many women exhibit in informal [peace build- ing] activities and translating that into their participation and influence informal activities.1 Kofi Annan (2002) United Nations Secretary-General [W]e [women] can best help you [men] prevent war by not repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. We can best Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Melbourne. This Article forms a part of the requirements for my JSD candidature at Columbia University. I would like to thank the members of my JSD Committee, Jeremy Waldron, Katherine Franke and Lori Damrosch. I would also like to thank Felicity Hill for many inspira- tional conversations and my partner, Joan Nestle, for her unflagging support. 1. The Secretary-General, Women, Peace and Security: Study Submitted by the Secretary- General Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1325 (2002), '1 212, U.N. Doc. E.03.1V.1 (2002) [hereinafter Secretary-General's Study].

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