5 And just two percent of funding dedicated to peace and security goes to gender equality or women’s empowerment. For example, women made up just two percent of mediators and nine percent of negotiators in official peace talks between 19. Despite a crescendo of calls for women’s participation in decision making surrounding peace and security over the last two decades, change has been slow to follow. The same cannot be said for the field of peace and security, where women have been thoroughly and consistently excluded. In the field of international development, decades of evidence of women’s positive impact on socioeconomic outcomes has changed the way governments, donors, and aid organizations do their work.
Partly as a means to address these challenges, calls for inclusive approaches to resolving conflict and insecurity have grown louder. 3 Empirical analysis of eight decades of international crises shows that peace-making efforts often succeed in the short term only to fail in the quest for long-term peace. In the 2000s, 90 percent of conflicts occurred in countries already afflicted by war the rate of relapse has increased every decade since the 1960s. 2 As new forms of conflict demand innovative responses, states that have emerged from war also persistently relapse. 1 Belligerents increasingly target civilians, and global displacement from conflict, violence, and persecution has reached the highest level ever recorded. In 2014 the world witnessed the highest battle-related death toll since the Cold War. The number of armed conflicts has been increasing over the past decade. Traditional approaches to ending wars-where armed groups meet behind closed doors to hammer out a truce-are falling short in the face of 21st century conflicts. Why Women? Inclusive Security and Peaceful Societies
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