Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security

Sara E. Davies, PhD (2005) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University. Her research publications on international refugee law, global health governance and responsibility to protect has appeared in numerous articles and manuscripts. She is co-editor in chief of quarterly journal Global Responsibility to Protect, published by Brill/Martinus NIjhoff.Zim Nwokora, D.Phil (2010) is a Lecturer in Politics at the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University. He teaches and researches topics in Comparative Politics, including political parties, public policy, and research methods. Eli Stamnes is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and holds a PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which she received in 2002. She was the head of the UN Programme at NUPI from 2006 to 2008, and has led the institute’s work on R2P since 2008. Her research interests include critical approaches to peace and security, gender and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).Sarah Teitt is Deputy Director and Researcher at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland, where she is responsible for advancing research and building partnerships aimed at the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities in the Asia Pacific. Her research focuses on Chinese foreign policy and human protection, and the protection and empowerment of women with respect to mass atrocities prevention and response.

• IntroductionSara E. Davies, Zim Nwokora, Eli Stamnes and Sarah TeittChapter OneThe responsibility to protect: Integrating gender perspectives into policies and practicesEli StamnesChapter TwoTranslating UNSCR 1325 into Practice: Lessons Learned and Obstacles AheadKatrina Lee KooChapter ThreeWPS and R2P: Theorising Responsibility and ProtectionLucy Hall and Laura J. ShepherdChapter FourResponsibility to Protect or Prevent? Victims and perpetrators of sexual violence crimes in armed conflictsInger SkjelsbækChapter FiveGender-sensitive protection and the Responsibility to Prevent: Lessons from Chad John Karlsrud and Randi SolhjellChapter SixImplementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Putting the Responsibility to Protect into Practice Sahana DharmapuriChapter SevenBeyond ‘Cultural Constraint’: Gender, Security and Participation in the Pacific IslandsNicole GeorgeChapter EightThe Obstacles of Aligning Women Peace and Security and the Responsibility to Protect in UN PracticeMelina Lito