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Women, Peace and Security in the Era of Post-Feminism: The Politics of Gender Equality in UNSCR 1325

  • 아시아여성연구
  • 2024, 63(2), pp.7~38
  • DOI : 10.14431/jaw.2024.8.63.2.7
  • Publisher : Research Institute of Asian Women
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Gender Studies
  • Received : June 23, 2024
  • Accepted : August 11, 2024
  • Published : August 30, 2024

Kim, Elli 1

1성공회대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study examines the practice of gender equality politics through the lens of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Security and Peace during a period of diversifying women’s narratives in peace and security discourse. In particular, it focuses on both the securitization of sexual violence against women and women’s participation, and highlights the implications and limitations in combination with peace and security discourse. Both protection and participation strategies place women within a victimization-peacebuilding framework, narrowing their participation strategies. This study reveals, first, that women’s participation strategy is restricted to technical aspects, such as increasing female representation without critically addressing the global male-dominated political and military security frameworks. Second although the securitization of sexual violence against women by conflating women’s human rights with human security brought greater visibility to sexual violence, it has resulted in hyper-visibility, hierarchy and homogenization of sexual violence and is patterned in a nationalist paradigm or policy commodification. In this respect, women in the Korean region face the challenge of making the UNSCR 1325 relevant to women’s safety at the grassroots level and addressing the politics of gender equality within a militarized peace framework.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.