Toward Inclusive Peace: Analyzing Gender-Sensitive Peace Agreements 2000-2016

The paper Toward
Inclusive Peace: Analyzing Gender-Sensitive Peace Agreements 2000-2016 aims
to shed light on two important questions: Why
then are peace agreements with gender equality and women’s rights provisions
adopted? What are the factors that give rise to agreements with explicit gender
provisions?

In this paper, we explore the
relationships among women’s elite participation in peace processes, women’s
political representation and women’s civil society participation inter alia,
and their impact on the adoption of gender provisions in peace accords. Our study sets out the multifaceted elements
plausibly expected to affect whether or not a peace agreement includes gender
equality and women’s rights provisions based existing scholarship on peace
processes and gender politics. With statistical analysis and inference,
however, we are able to show based on the universe of cases 2000 to 2016 more
precisely which factors, and in which combination, are most significant in
enabling the inclusion of gender equality and women’s rights provisions in
peace agreements.