TomDispatch: Can Women Make Peace?

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Tomgram: Ann Jones, Can Women Make Peace?

Posted by Ann Jones at 8:00am, January 13, 2011.


EXCERPT ...

Looking for a way out of Afghanistan? Maybe it’s time to try something entirely new and totally different. So how about putting into action, for the first time in recorded history, the most enlightened edict ever passed by the United Nations Security Council: Resolution 1325?

Passed on October 31, 2000, more than a decade ago, that “landmark” resolution was hailed worldwide as a great “victory” for women and international peace and security. In a nutshell, SCR 1325 calls for women to participate equally and fully at decision-making levels in all processes of conflict resolution, peacemaking, and reconstruction. Without the active participation of women in peacemaking every step of the way, the Security Council concluded, no just and durable peace could be achieved anywhere.

“Durable” was the key word. Keep it in mind.

Most hot wars of recent memory, little and big, have been resolved or nudged into remission through what is called a power-sharing agreement. The big men from most or all of the warring parties -- and war is basically a guy thing, in case you hadn’t noticed -- shoulder in to the negotiating table and carve up a country’s or region’s military, political, and financial pie. Then they proclaim the resulting deal “peace.”


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[Tesha]

1. I've always thought that Sheri S. Tepper's "The Gate to Women's Country"...

...was one of the few possible ways forward, but we'd never
find her solution acceptable among the masses of current
Americans. Perhaps after an apocalypse of some sort?

Tesha

[niyad]

2. one of my favourites

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3. Patriarchy ... "the bird with one wing" --- kicky!