This volume examines the specific gender roles in peace and security. The authors analyse the implementation process of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in various countries and discuss systemic challenges concerning the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Through in-depth case studies, the authors shed new light on topics such as the gender-related mechanisms of peace processes, gender training practices for police personnel, and the importance of violence prevention. The volume studies the role of women in peace and security as well as questions of gender mainstreaming by adopting various theoretical concepts, including feminist theories, concepts of masculinity, organizational and security studies. It also highlights regional and transnational approaches for the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, namely the perspectives of the European Union, NATO, the UN bureaucracy and the civil society. It presents best cases and political advice for tackling theproblem of gender inequality in peace and security.

Manuela Scheuermann is a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg. Previously she was an Interim Professor for International Organisations at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. Her research focuses on international organisations (especially the United Nations), inter-organisational relations, peacekeeping and gender norms. She serves on the editorial board of theJournal of International Organizations Studies and wrote the handbookDie Vereinten Nationen. Eine Einführung.Anja Zürn is research associate and lecturer with the Jean Monnet Chair, Department of European Studies and International Relations at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg. In her research, she focuses on gender in International Relations, international climate change policy and poststructuralist approaches to International Relations.

Women, Peace and Security A Global Agenda in the Making.- Part I: Gender Roles in Peace and Security.- From Sex and Gender to Intersectional Approaches? UN-Written Identities of Local Women in Participation and Protection Discourses.- Peace Processes: Business as Usual?.- Organisational Masculinity and Gender Norms: The Case of the UNDPKO.- Peacebuilding Measures and the Transformation of Masculinities: Looking at Liberia and Uganda.- Part II: Implementation of Women, Peace and Security.- Centring Wars Side Effects: The Institutionalisation of Conflict-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in International Law and Its Translation into National Action Plans.- Gender Training for Police Peacekeepers: Where Are We Now?.- Mainstreaming Gender in European Union Transitional Justice Policy: Towards a Transformative Approach?.- Women, Peace and Security Organisations: Gender Norms and NATO.- Civil Society and Its Role Within UNSCR 1325 National Action Plans.- Part III: A Call for Action.- For a Foreign Policy Based on Human Rights and Gender Equality: The Need for Action by the German Foreign Office on Implementation of the "Women, Peace And Security" Agenda.- Conclusion.