ABSTRACT
The chapter starts with an overview of the political values held by Women in Black: that is, their gender politics. The gender politics of Women in Black centre on critiques of militarism and support for political responsibility: a politics emerging from personal-political imaginations of conflict and post-conflict. The author argues that the room of one's own offered by these workshops allowed activists to begin making connections between their personal experiences and their political stances. The final section of this chapter offers a narrative account of the actions developed by activists between 2005 and 2008 that in some way invoke UNSCR 1325. The activities discussed illustrate how Women in Black activists have reconciled the resolution with their feminist-pacifist values. The analysis indicates how personal-political imaginations of conflict and post-conflict shape gender security discourse, and, critically, begins to demonstrate that the precise configuration of our gender security discourse affects the way in which policy is produced.
