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The WPS Agenda Beyond 2025: Time for a WPS Treaty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2025

Chantal de Jonge Oudraat  and
Michael E. Brown
Chantal de Jonge Oudraat*
Affiliation:
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Michael E. Brown
Affiliation:
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
*
Corresponding author: Chantal de Jonge Oudraat; Email: coudraat@gwu.edu
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Over the first quarter of the 21st century, the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda became established as the most important policy framework linking gender issues to peace and security problems. WPS work has proceeded along two tracks: a nongovernmental track comprised of women’s rights activists and gender scholars; and a policy track directed by national governments and intergovernmental organizations (Brown and de Jonge Oudraat 2025). Both tracks have been instrumental in advancing the WPS agenda, including the adoption by the UN Security Council of ten WPS resolutions—starting with Resolution 1325 in October 2000. The 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325 is an appropriate occasion to assess WPS accomplishments to date and define WPS priorities for the years ahead.

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Politics & Gender , First View , pp. 1 - 8
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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