Smart Power: Leveraging the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
Smart Power: Leveraging the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda The link between women’s empowerment and successful peace processes is “incontrovertible,” said Hudson. She and her team conducted the largest ever empirical analysis of the phenomenon. They examined 166 nation state outcomes, ranging from war to population health, and found that the subjugation of women at the household level was “significantly associated” with 72 percent of negative outcomes measured. In light of these findings, incorporating women in peace processes is a necessary part of any common sense, “realist...
Source: newsecuritybeat.org