The Foreign Service Journal, April 2011

F OCUS ON W OMEN IN S ECUR I TY AND D EVELOPMENT UNSCR 1325: S LOW P ROGRESS , U NCERTAIN P ROSPECTS Ben Fishman 36 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / A P R I L 2 0 1 1 hen the tenth anniversary of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 rolled around last October, the United Nations community dutifully organized anniversary events that lauded the historic measure and vowed a renewed effort to fulfill its promise. To be sure, UNSCR 1325 was and is historic: it “calls on,” “urges” and “requests” member-states to protect women in conflict and to include women substantively in the peace processes of negotiations, peacekeeping and peacebuilding. But the resolution, and several that followed, have largely been neg- W OMEN IN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS HAVE DONE MUCH MORE THAN GOVERNMENTS TO ADVANCE UNSC R ESOLUTION 1325’ S GOALS . B Y J OHN T IRMAN W