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UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace & security, passed on 31 October 2000, was the first UNSCR to specifically acknowledge the impacts of conflict, particularly sexual violence, on women & girls. What has it achieved -- & what are its limitations? Adapted from the source document.

Over the past decade, the effective performance by the UN Security Council of its primary responsibility in the area of peace and security has increasingly become contingent on the implementation of its decisions within the national legal systems of the UN Member States. An examination of this issue in the context of the British legal system could offer a useful case-study of the ways to enhance the effectiveness of the UN collective security mechanism, to enforce the limits on the legitimacy of that mechanism, and also to highlight the practical difficulties that may accompany the attempts to apply Security Council resolutions domestically. This contribution exposes all these issues, focusing on the practice of the uk courts over the past decade. It examines the mediation of the effect of Security Council resolutions into English law through the 1946 United Nations Act, the royal prerogative and other common law techniques. After that, the contribution moves on to examine the English courts' handling of the normative conflict between a Security Council resolution and other sources of international law.

"This volume presents systematic empirical research on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (UNSCR 1325). How should we understand women's participation in peace processes and in peace operations? And what forms of gendered security dynamics are present in armed conflict and international interventions? These questions represent central themes of protection and participation that the international community has to address in order to implement UNSCR 1325. Thus far, the implementation has often employed varying approaches related to gender mainstreaming, a third theme of the resolution. Yet, there is a dearth of systematic data which until recently has restricted the ability of researchers to evaluate the progress in implementation and impact of UNSCR 1325. By engaging with both empirics and critical theory, the authors of this edited volume make important contributions to the gender, peace and security agenda. They identify some of the problems of implementing UNSC 1325 and offer a sobering assessment of progress of implementation and insights into how to advance our understanding through systematic research. Many of the chapters are focused on operational aspects of UNSCR 1325, but all also engage with the theoretical underpinnings of UNSCR 1325 to bring forth central debates on more fundamental challenges to the development of knowledge in the fields of gender, peace and security. This book will be of much interest to students of gender studies, peace and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general"--

Authors Jonathan Brewer and Richard Nephew identify key issues and obstacles faced by United Nations sanctions committees, panel members, and member states, and offer recommendations for how to solve some of these challenges, in light of the importance of sanctions as part of the UNSC policy-making process. Following an informal survey of UN committee members and experts in late 2015 and early 2016, the authors have identified three core themes to be addressed: absence of proper training; shortage of proper analytic support, including access to technical capabilities and laboratory equipment; and inadequate education for sanctions committee members, panel experts, and member states. In order to enhance the effectiveness of UN Security Council sanctions regimes--which offers immense international policy value given the application of sanctions in a variety of hotspots around the world--Brewer and Nephew recommend funding and implementing the following six programs: (1) Provision of regular, specific training courses on sanctions topics; (2) Provision of facilities and opportunities for dedicated, off-site informal discussions among sanctions committee chairs to promote information sharing on best practices, problems, and solutions; (3) Establishment of a regular mechanism for the provision of ad hoc funding of specific requirements for sanctions implementation, similar to member state support programs for other specialized agencies such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); (4) Establishment of "matchmaking" facilities between potential donors and recipients for specific, identified projects; (5) Development of a guidebook for member states on implementation of UNSC sanctions resolutions and, in time, dedicated training resources; (6) Analytical papers on specific aspects of UNSC sanctions, intended to explore best practices, problems to avoid, and solutions to frequent implementation issues.

A deep dive into the WMD nonproliferation norms set by UN Security Council Resolution 1540—with lessons for implementing international norms in cyberspace.

"This volume presents systematic empirical research on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (UNSCR 1325). How should we understand women's participation in peace processes and in peace operations? And what forms of gendered security dynamics are present in armed conflict and international interventions? These questions represent central themes of protection and participation that the international community has to address in order to implement UNSCR 1325. Thus far, the implementation has often employed varying approaches related to gender mainstreaming, a third theme of the resolution. Yet, there is a dearth of systematic data which until recently has restricted the ability of researchers to evaluate the progress in implementation and impact of UNSCR 1325. By engaging with both empirics and critical theory, the authors of this edited volume make important contributions to the gender, peace and security agenda. They identify some of the problems of implementing UNSC 1325 and offer a sobering assessment of progress of implementation and insights into how to advance our understanding through systematic research. Many of the chapters are focused on operational aspects of UNSCR 1325, but all also engage with the theoretical underpinnings of UNSCR 1325 to bring forth central debates on more fundamental challenges to the development of knowledge in the fields of gender, peace and security. This book will be of much interest to students of gender studies, peace and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general"--

Introduction: An introduction to Resolution 1325: measuring progress and impact, Louise Olsson and Theodora-Ismene Gizelis . - PART I: Participation . - 1. Women's participation and peace? The decline of armed conflict in East Asia, Erik Melander and Elin Bjarnegård . - 2. Women's participation in international operations and missions, Louise Olsson, Anita Schjølset and Frida Möller . - 3. Female peacekeepers and gender balancing: Token gestures or informed policymaking? Kyle Beardsley and Sabrina Karim . - PART II: Protection . - 4. Understanding protection: Actors, victims, and power Jana Krause . - 5. War and gender inequalities in health, Henrik Urdal and Chi Primus Che . - 6. Assessing sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers, Ragnhild Nordås and Siri Rustad . - PART III: Gender Mainstreaming . - 7. Exploring gender mainstreaming in security and development, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Jana Krause . - 8. (En)gendered security? Gender mainstreaming and women's inclusion in peace processes, Kara Ellerby . - 9. Gender mainstreaming unravelled: The case of DDRR in Liberia, Helen Basini . - Postscript: Challenges and opportunities for forwarding gender, peace, and security, Edward Newman and Karl DeRouen