Gender Justice for Gendered Peace?

Both the UN Women, Peace and Security resolutions and the International Criminal Court stress the importance of preventing and redressing gendered harms during war and armed conflict. The nature of these harms, the effectiveness of deterrence, and the unevenness in decisions and between resolutions is less clearly interrogated within either site.

Both the WPS agenda and the ICC may be viewed as occupying internationalized political space. Through their domestication practices, as enacted in the WPS NAPS and the ICC’s approach to complementarity and new developments around its position as a ‘hub’ for international justice, both sites become localized, with normative and political impact within states and communities. At the same time, the ICC and WPS agenda are indebted to civil society activism and advocacy efforts, both community-based and international, for their inception and development

 Gender Justice for Gendered Peace? examines overlaps and divergences in the approaches of the UN WPS agenda and ICC, as well as politics and impacts at multiple scales, to better understand gendered justice and peace in practice. It provides invaluable insight as to how gendered justice and peace intersect and co-relate. It also illuminate the scalar effects of international responses to gendered harms, helping ensure local and contextually relevant actions in the prevention of violence and securement of peace through WPS and at the ICC.