Security Days: In Pursuit of Peace and Security - How Gender Makes a Difference

Even though Women, Peace and Security emerged on the global agenda fifteen years ago, women remain underrepresented in crisis prevention, conflict management formal peace negotiations and peace-building efforts and other areas related to peace and security.

This year’s fifteenth anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security provided a valuable opportunity for the OSCE to review its efforts to integrate a gender perspective into relevant activities, policies and projects and to reflect on how the Women, Peace and Security agenda contributes to the Organization’s ability to prevent and respond to conflicts as well as to its efforts in post-conflict rehabilitation.

The highly interactive conference gathered senior executives from national governments, parliamentarians, civil society leaders, prominent women’s advocates and grassroots activists, representatives of international and regional organizations, academics and leading journalists from OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation.

The event looked into ways to integrate a gender perspective in conflict analysis, conflict resolution, reconciliation and mediation and explore the prerequisites for successful gender mainstreaming of security sector institutions.

The conference took place at the Hofburg Congress Centre.

Follow the event using the hashtag #secdays on Twitter (@OSCE) and on Facebook.

Listen to the recordings from the sessions: