NORMATIVE FRAME OF WOWEN, PEACE AND SECURITY AGENDA.

Women, peace, and security (WPS) represents a policy framework aimed at raising awareness on the critical need for women to be viewed and to be included as key actors, if we are to achieve sustainable peace and security. The main idea of the WPS is raising awareness about the gender equality, and subsequently including the women in each stage of the peace process. The purpose of the paper is to elaborate shortly and closely on the guiding documents and the normative frame of the WPS agenda: UN Declaration on Human Rights (1948), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, 1979), World Conferences on Women (1975-95), UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on WPS (2000). The landmark resolution of the WPS agenda, 1325, has four pillars: prevention, participation, protection and peacebuilding and recovery. In an attempt of supporting the WPS agenda, global partnerships and alliances have been formed by different UN bodies, UN member states, non-state actors and the civil society. There is a common impression that out of all UN resolutions, the Resolution 1325 on WPS is most known. The resolution and the agenda have been supplemented by other nine UNSC resolutions, sometimes referred as WPS UNSCRs. UN and its many partners on different levels are continuously pushing forward the agenda, insisting on inclusion of women in the matters of peace and security. Besides that, UN and its partners are fully committed to preventing and protecting women and girls in any conflict. A tremendous great deal of job in moving the WPS agenda forward is done by the civil society. And it looks like we have learned the lesson: the civil society has been one of the key actors in negotiating the UN SDGs 2030. However, not only the UN and civil society, but also other international organizations have put the WPS agenda high on their priority list. NATO has responded with creating mechanisms aimed at implementing resolutions on WPS. One such mechanism are National Action Plans on implementing UNSCR 1325 and other documents which are part of the WPS agenda. OSCE and EU are also providing huge support to moving forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]