The result of collaboration between the Graduate Institute’s Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) and the International Peace Institute (IPI), entitled Reimagining Peacemaking: Women’s Roles in Peace Processes, was launched last week in New York.

Co-headed by Thania Paffenholz, Senior Researcher, CCDP, the report explains how the lag in women’s participation in peace processes is linked to broader dilemmas in the peacemaking landscape today.

Drawing on a comparative study of 40 peace and transition processes from the CCDP’s Broadening Participation Project, the report demonstrates that when women are able to effectively influence a peace process, an agreement is almost always reached and the agreement is more likely to be implemented.

The agreements they produce establish post-conflict planning, map power structures in society and determine priorities for donor funding, all of which can influence the durability of peace.

Despite these wide-ranging implications, according to UN Women, between 1992 and 2011 just 2 per cent of chief mediators and 9 per cent of negotiators in peace processes were women.

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