ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a brief conclusion to the strands of argument we develop throughout the book and reflects on some of the limitations of the work we present in this book. We reflect on the possible pitfalls of theorising women's peace work as care labour, acknowledging that drawing on theories of social reproduction risks naturalising the work that civil society organisations do in service of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, in the same way that care labour in the domestic realm is still persistently presumed to be ‘natural’ and is therefore consistently unappreciated and underfunded. In line with feminist theories of global political economy, however, we propose that seeing the care labour undertaken by civil society organisations working on and with the WPS agenda as a condition of the agenda's success enables more focussed and transparent discussions about the resources that are really necessary to make 1325 work.
