Toward Inclusive Peace: Analyzing Gender-Sensitive Peace Agreements 2000-2016

<p>The paper <em>Toward Inclusive Peace: Analyzing Gender-Sensitive Peace Agreements 2000-2016 </em>aims to shed light on two important questions: Why then are peace agreements with gender equality and women’s rights provisions adopted? What are the factors that give rise to agreements with explicit gender provisions? </p> <p> </p> <p>In this paper, we explore the relationships among women’s elite participation in peace processes, women’s political representation and women’s civil society participation inter alia, and their impact on the adoption of gender provisions in peace accords. Our study sets out the multifaceted elements plausibly expected to affect whether or not a peace agreement includes gender equality and women’s rights provisions based existing scholarship on peace processes and gender politics. With statistical analysis and inference, however, we are able to show based on the universe of cases 2000 to 2016 more precisely which factors, and in which combination, are most significant in enabling the inclusion of gender equality and women’s rights provisions in peace agreements. </p>