Inclusive Security, Sustainable Peace: A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action

Inclusive Security, Sustainable Peace: A Toolkit for Advocacy and ActionInclusive Security, Sustainable Peace: A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action is a resource for women peace builders and practitioners to effectively promote peace and security. The Initiative for Inclusive Security and International Alert collaborated to produce the Toolkit, published in November 2004, which outlines the components of peace building from conflict prevention to post-conflict reconstruction, highlights the role that women play in each phase, and is directed to women peace builders and the policy community.

In 2007, Inclusive Security released an update to the toolkit with the goal of illustrating the toolkit’s concepts with new developments occurred after its original publication. Please note that the update is a complement, not a substitute for the toolkit.

Click on the links below to download sections or individual chapters of the Toolkit.

The main goals of the Toolkit are to:

  • overview critical information and strategies for addressing key peace and security issues;
  • bridge the divide between the realities of peace activists in conflict, post-conflict, and transition areas, and the international practitioners and policymakers responsible for designing and implementing programs in these contexts;
  • present issues in a user-friendly manner and demystify the “policy speak” and terminology used by the international community;
  • describe how women are affected by and contribute to peacemaking, peace building, and security processes; and
  • highlight practical examples of women's contributions and offer concrete, feasible steps for fostering their empowerment.

A key measure of our success will be the extent to which activists, policymakers, and others use, develop, and take ownership of this resource.

Click here for translations of the Toolkit.

The English version is below.


Foreword, Who We Are, and Copyright

2007 Toolkit Update

Introduction:
     Table of Contents
     Acknowledgements
     User Guide
     The Conceptual Framework: Security, Peace, Accountability and Rights
     Key International Policies and Legal Mechanisms: Women's Rights in the Context of Peace and Security
     Human Rights

Conflict Prevention, Resolution and Reconstruction:
     Conflict Prevention
     Peace Negotiations and Agreements
     Peace Support Operations
     Post Conflict Reconstruction

Security Issues:
     Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration
     Small Arms, Light Weapons and Landmines
     Security Sector Reform

Justice, Governance and Civil Society:
     Transitional Justice and Reconciliation
     Constitutional Rights and Legislation
     Democracy and Governance
     Civil Society

Protecting Vulnerable Groups:
     Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
     Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and Services
     HIV/AIDS
     Children's Security

Appendix:
     List of Donors
     Universal Declaration of Human Rights
     Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
     United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security