{"id":2451,"date":"2021-11-12T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T10:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2021-11-12T11:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T10:11:23","slug":"women-and-peace-in-iraq-opportunities-challenges-and-prospects-for-a-better-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"New published study: Women and Peace in Iraq: opportunities, challenges, and prospects for a better future"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are proud to present this long-awaited study, the result of one year of extensive research and joint efforts between Dr. Zeynep Kaya and Dr. Ilham Makki, with support from a local team of researchers. The study was conducted within the framework of\u00a0 the \u201cWomen Talking Peace<\/a>\u201d project,\u00a0 funded by The German Corporation for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit \u2013 GIZ) on behalf of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Das Bundesministerium f\u00fcr wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung \u2013 BMZ) and implemented by elbarlament.<\/p>\n

This groundbreaking study puts the focus on the voices of women in Iraq; it looks at what\u00a0they<\/em>\u00a0think about the peacebuilding processes happening in their country and why they are not part of it. This valuable women\u2019s perspective is usually neglected in favor of a more top-down approach looking only at the political processes, negotiations etc.<\/p>\n

Dr. Zeynep Kaya and Dr. Ilham Makki have painstakingly drawn on their extensive knowledge and expertise in the field to provide a thorough analysis of women\u2019s participation in peacebuilding processes in Iraq, highlighting opportunities, challenges and recommendations to different stakeholders for a better future of Iraq. The study is contributing not only to the existing literature on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in Iraq, but also articulating guidelines for the different interventions needed to enhance women\u2019s engagement and effective participation in formal and informal peacebuilding processes.<\/p>\n

Women and girls have suffered from the long-term conflicts in Iraq, with detrimental impacts on their social, economic and political conditions. Important strides, including drafting an Iraqi National Action Plan (INAP) for the monitoring and implementation of United Nations Security Resolution 1325 of 2000, have been made, which acknowledge that women must participate on an equal footing with men in peacebuilding processes, and that gender equality is crucial in establishing sustainable peace and building democratic functioning Iraqi state organs. However, women\u2019s effective participation in formal and informal peace processes in Iraq still lags behind.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Iraqi women and girls continue to defy the challenges to participation in peacebuilding processes. As a pillar of the protest movement, young women have established\/founded the \u201cTheir Homeland\u201d movement, through which they seek to affect fundamental change in the Iraqi system. They also continue to play a role that is integral to the quest for change and gendering peace and justice processes. That too comes at a cost, as women\u2019s presence in Iraqi public life puts them at a risk of harassment and assassination in some cases, among others. But as feminists scholars argued that \u201cthe fate
\nof women is indicative of the fate of societies\u201d (Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt 2009), sustainable peace and justice in Iraq can only be achieved when Iraqi women\u2019s opinions and efforts are recognised on local, national and international levels.<\/p>\n

We hope the study informs and inspires all those writing and working in the field, with the aim of supporting Iraqi women and girls to have power and peace. We would like to thank Dr. Zeynep Kaya and Dr. Ilham Makki for this excellent study and, of course, all the women who were interviewed and who contributed important information to the success of this study.<\/p>\n

Download the study\u00a0here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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We are proud to present this long-awaited study, the result of one year of extensive research and joint efforts between Dr. Zeynep Kaya and Dr. Ilham Makki, with support from a local team of researchers.\u00a0This groundbreaking study puts the focus on the voices of women in Iraq; it looks at what\u00a0they<\/em> think about the peacebuilding processes happening in their country and why they are not part of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}