The Women, Peace and Security Agenda and the Climate Crisis: Inextricable Links
Publisher: Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights
Author(s): Carol Cohn
Date: 2020
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Gender
This talk was presented as part of the research seminar, African Perspectives on the 20th Anniversary of UNSCR 325 - Gendering Peace and Security, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, March 9-10, 2020. It explores how and why should the climate crisis be understood as integral to the possibility of ever meeting the goals of the WPS agenda, and offers thoughts about what we can gain get from bringing a feminist perspective to making the links between WPS and climate change. If the goals of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda are understood as ensuring women’s human security, ending and preventing wars, and building gender-just, sustainable peace, confronting the climate crisis must be understood as both practically and conceptually inextricable from the realization of the WPS agenda.