A Cross-Cutting Agenda: Gender, Climate Change and Conflict
Publisher: ECDPM Great Insights Magazine
Author(s): Mayesha Alam
Date: 2019
Topics: Assessment, Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Dispute Resolution/Mediation, Gender
Gender equality is crucial to achieve climate justice, to resolve conflict and to maintain peace. Many of the risks and vulnerabilities in the conflict–climate nexus have a clear gender component. Addressing them calls for gender mainstreaming and gender balancing, while highlighting the need for local solutions and capitalising on global opportunities for advancing resilience.
Gender equality is crucial for climate justice
Just as climate change is a cross-cutting issue, so too is gender equality. Gender equality is crucial to achieve climate justice, to resolve conflict and to maintain peace. In Africa and beyond, communities face social, economic and political pressures associated with our changing climate.
Since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000, governments have progressively acknowledged that protecting women’s rights and promoting the participation of women alongside men in conflict resolution is vital to international peace and stability.
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