VOICES OF PEACE AND FREEDOM. CONTRIBUTION OF INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS TO UNSC RESOLUTION 1325
VOICES OF PEACE AND FREEDOM. CONTRIBUTION OF INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS TO UNSC RESOLUTION 1325

Author(s): Judit Acsády
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Civil Society, Gender history
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: UNSC Resolution 1325; women’s international peace movements; WILPF; pacifism; feminism
Summary/Abstract: In 1915, at the Women’s Peace Congress in The Hague, two thousand women delegates from belligerent countries involved in World War 1 established the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace, which was renamed the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Zurich in 1919. It was based on the initiatives of local women’s organizations belonging to the IWSA. The Hague Resolution proclaims the need to stop the war and lays down the foundations for sustainable peace. The congresses discussed the position of women in armed conflicts and their role in peacebuilding. Apart from following how the ideas of Resolution 1325 can be linked to these two congresses and the ideas of earlier pacifist thinkers, this paper will also highlight the connections between the initiatives of earlier feminist organizations and the concerns of UNSCR 1325. The paper will also provide an overview of the activities and anti-war ideas of pacifist feminists in Hungary during WWI linked to international movements.

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