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Summary: The study "Gender, Peace and Security
Agendas: Where are the Girls Now?" aimed to
a) further explore and better understand the
particular issues relating to girls and young
women within women, peace and security
agendas, and b) inform policy development
relating to gender, peace and security.
This study aimed to a) further explore and better understand
the particular issues relating to girls and young women
within women, peace and security agendas, and b) inform
policy development relating to gender, peace and security.
These agendas and policy development processes are very much
linked to UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which does
talk about women and girls and indicates the need to
consider the experiences and needs of girls in conflict and
post conflict situations. However, the study finds that this
attention remains quite superficial, and there is little
in-depth consideration of the particular implications of
conflict for girls and young women, or of involving them in
peacebuilding processes. Although Security Council
resolutions relating to children and armed conflict also
recognize some of the particular conflict-related issues for
girls, the range of issues is quite narrow, and adolescent
girls remain somewhat invisible. They fall between the quite
separate UN agendas for women, peace and security, and for
children and armed conflict. Yet adolescent girls and young
women make up large sections of conflict-affected
population, and are often mothers and heads of households.
They are crucial actors in post-conflict reconstruction and
in the rebuilding of peaceful communities and societies. The
study also highlights the fact that although Canadian women
and women’s peace movements are active in the promotion of
SCR 1325, their activities and messages do seem to have not
targeted Canadian girls and young women; there are few young
women activists on these issues.Owner: Jackie Kirk and Suzanne Taylor