Women, war and peace

It is 25 years since the UN Security Council signed a historic agreement, linking gender equality to the maintenance of international peace and security. But the world is now facing the highest number of active conflicts since 1946, creating unprecedented risks for women and girls. Yet only one in 10 peace talks in the last year included female negotiators. Annette Young talks to Chris Coulter, executive director of The Berghof Foundation who has more than 20 years’ experience in conflict resolution and a former advisor to the Swedish Foreign Ministry and Lyric Thompson, CEO of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative in Paris for the Feminist Foreign Policy Conference. Also as the war in Ukraine continues and European nations growing increasingly concerned about Russian aggression; Denmark has now begun drafting women into its armed forces.