ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on women's contributions to integrated peace-building, as for most of the twentieth century, women and issues of gender have been ignored or marginalized rather than mainstreamed. Peacebuilding can change power dynamics into constructive relationships, making attention to gender in peacebuilding essential. The chapter focuses on women's participation. Women's rights and human security activists focus on the right of the individual, some theorists make a case for women's inclusion based on the interests of the democratic state. UN Security Council Resolution 1325 is simultaneously a demand for women's inclusion, a call for broader representation in peacebuilding, and an articulation that conflict prevention and resolution are integral to establishing human security in a post–Cold War world. According to S. Hunt and C. Posa, the concept of "inclusive security" is "a diverse citizen-driven approach to global stability, that emphasizes women's agency, not their vulnerability". Conflict transformation theorists are natural allies of those advocating for a gendered approach to addressing conflict.
