Empowering women in the EU and beyond: Leadership and conflict resolution
Experts agree that much depends on women being involved on an equal footing in political leadership, as well as corporate governance, conflict prevention, conflict resolution, and post-conflict power structures. In most societies around the world, women hold only a minority of decision-making positions in public and private institutions. Yet for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), women’s political participation is a fundamental prerequisite for gender equality and genuine democracy. Furthermore, the European Union has increasingly recognised that conflict and crisis management are not gender-neutral and has introduced numerous gender policies and initiatives to forward the aims of landmark United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 (2000).
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- board of management
- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- business organisation
- decision-making
- defence
- economic analysis
- ECONOMICS
- gender mainstreaming
- international affairs
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international security
- LAW
- management
- military personnel
- participation of women
- peacekeeping
- political figure
- political involvement
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- position of women
- rights and freedoms
- social affairs
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- statistics
- UN resolution