Women, Peace and Security: Delegates’ Resources

Welcome to UN Women’s resource hub for delegates attending the International Conference on Women, Peace and Security organized by the Philippines from 28 to 30 October 2024 in Manila. UN Women is proud to be a conference partner.

UN Women serves as the global custodian of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in the UN system. The WPS agenda recognizes that women are often excluded in peace and security processes, and encourages their leadership and meaningful participation in peace and security decision-making efforts.

In Asia and the Pacific, UN Women supports Member States’ efforts to translate the WPS agenda from policy to practice, and works to build capacities and increase opportunities for women at the local, national and regional levels. This includes the development and dissemination of knowledge products to foster learning, information exchange and innovation in pursuit of sustainable peace.

This page lists publications produced by UN Women in Asia and the Pacific, and globally, over the past five years on key aspects of women, peace and security, arranged into sub-themes.

WPS Agenda Global and Regional Review

• Preventing Conflict, Transforming Justice, Securing the Peace_A Global Study on the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 
• Women, Peace and Security in Asia Pacific, 20 Years on: Progress achieved and lessons learned, 2020  
• Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals_The Gender Snapshot 2023 
• Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals_ The gender snapshot 2024

Peace Process

• Women’s Meaningful Participation In Peace And Political Processes In Fragile Contexts, 2022
• Gender-inclusive peace processes: Strengthening women’s meaningful participation through constituency building, 2021  
• Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations_Connections Between Presence and Influence 2012

Women, Peace and Climate Security

• Gender, Climate and Security- Sustaining Inclusive Peace on the Frontlines of Climate Change, 2020
• Women Peace and Climate Security in Asia and the Pacific, 2024
• Feminist climate justice think pieces: Centering Reparation, Intersectionality and Interdependence in Feminist Climate Justice, 2024

Financing

• Financing for Gender Equality and the Implementation of the Women Peace and Security Agenda, 2023
• Financing gender-inclusive peace: Gaps in implementing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, 2021
• Research on military expenditure and women, peace, and security, 2022

Feminist Foreign Policy

• Streamlining the Global Path to Gender Equality_ The Role of Feminist Foreign Policy, 2023
• Feminist foreign policies: An introduction, 2022

Cybersecurity and AI

• Women, Peace and Digital (In)Security in South-East Asia – Reflections on Diverse Experiences in the Digital Sphere
• Artificial Intelligence and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in South-East Asia
• Cybersecurity Threats, Vulnerabilities and Resilience among Women Human Rights Defenders and Civil Society in South-East Asia
• Facilitators’ Manual: Cybersecurity Threats, Vulnerabilities and Resilience Among Women Human Rights Defenders and Civil Society in South-East Asia
• Action Brief – From Warfare to Peace building- Employing Artificial Intelligence for Women, Peace and Security
• Action Brief: Women, Peace & (Cyber) Security in Asia and the Pacific (English and Vietnamese)
• Advocacy brief – Cybersecurity in the context of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, 2022
• Project Brief – Women, Peace and Cybersecurity: Promoting Women’s Peace and Security in the Digital World (2021-2023) for the Asia-Pacific Region

 WPS and Online Hate Speech

• Social Media Monitoring on COVID-19 and Misogyny in Asia and the Pacific, 2020
• Eliminating online hate speech to secure women’s political participation, 2021
• Big Data Analysis on Hate Speech and Misogyny in Four Countries- Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, 2023  

COVID 19 and WPS

• Women Peace and Security, and Covid-19 In Asia-Pacific, 2020
• ACTION BRIEF: Women Human Rights Defenders: Women, Peace & Security and COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific
• Women, Peace & Security | Women in decision-making: COVID-19 and beyond

WPS and Violent Extremism

• Empowered Women, Peaceful Communities_ Results and lessons learned from the regional programme on preventing violent extremism in South and Southeast Asia, 2023
• Programmatic note: UN Women countering terrorism and preventing violent extremism support within the framework of WPS, 2022
• A training manual: Women in preventing and countering violent extremism

Disaster Preparedness

• Women’s Leadership and Participation in Addressing Conflict Risks and Promoting Disaster Preparedness- A Scoping Study in Indonesia, The Philippines And Viet Nam, 2022

Inclusion Matters and LNOB

• Access to Justice for Women with Intellectual and Psychosocial Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific, 2022
• Indigenous Women & the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
• Young women in peace and security: At the intersection of the YPS and WPS agendas, 2018
• Work with men and boys for gender equality: A review of field formation, the evidence base and future directions
• Inputs for the Report on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Peace and Security: Submission from UN Women to the UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

Country Specific

• Afghanistan_Resolve of Afghan women in the face of erasure- Three years since the Taliban takeover 2024
• Afghanistan crisis update- Women and girls in displacement
• Afghanistan_Brief No. 2- Legal and justice system changes and implications for gender equality and women’s rights in Afghanistan
• Afghanistan_Gender Responsive Ceasefires and Ceasefire Agreements
• Afghanistan_Summary report of countrywide women’s consultations
• Bangladesh_In Brief- Women, Peace and Security
• Bangladesh_Promoting the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
• India_Women in Policy, Peacekeeping and Leadership
• Indonesia_Women, Peace and Security in Indonesia
• Myanmar_Advancing Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peace and Security- Evidence and Ideas for Practice in Myanmar_2024
• Thailand_Women, Peace and Security in Thailand
• Myanmar_Understanding and applying gender concepts in Myanmar for more inclusive programming
• Timor Leste_Women, Peace and Security: Story of Change and Progress from the Implementation of NAP 1325