{"id":1475,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-relevance-of-un-security-council-resolution-1325-on-upsc-psir-2013-3503\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:54:53","slug":"discuss-the-relevance-of-un-security-council-resolution-1325-on-upsc-psir-2013-3503","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-relevance-of-un-security-council-resolution-1325-on-upsc-psir-2013-3503\/","title":{"rendered":"Discuss the relevance of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on the security of women in conflict zones."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> 31 Oct 2000, adopted unanimously <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> first time women\u2019s safety in war treated as international peace and security, not welfare <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> line: relevance = the standard it set, not the protection delivered<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> security once written around states and soldiers <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> 1325 shifted the referent to women in conflict <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> same line: it is a norm, not an enforcement instrument<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p><b class=\"pq-sc\">Enloe<\/b>\u2019s \u201cwhere are the women?\u201d finally put to the Council <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> four pillars: participation, protection, prevention, relief and recovery <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> women as peacemakers, not only victims <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> architecture built: 1820 (2008) sexual violence as tactic of war; 100+ national action plans; India\u2019s all-female FPU, Liberia 2007 <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> ground record thin: <b class=\"pq-sc\">Coomaraswamy<\/b>\u2019s <i>Global Study<\/i> \u2014 single digits in peace talks <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> SG\u2019s 2025 report: 7% negotiators, nine of ten tracks with none; 676 million women in conflict areas <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Afghanistan, Sudan, Gaza <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> no enforcement <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Pillay<\/b>: geopolitics beats suffering<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p><b>Otto<\/b>: feminist ideas absorbed as the Council\u2019s symbolic capital <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> selective engagement, no accountability, protective stereotypes returning through the language of protection<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> critique holds, but 1325 not redundant <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> 46% of Council decisions (2025), lowest since 2009 <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> that retreat is itself measured against 1325 <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> relevance is normative, and rises as compliance falls<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> 25 years on, 1325\u2019s power lies in naming, not enforcing <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> it made women\u2019s exclusion visible, and so chargeable <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> the resolution outlives its own weak record<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[46],"pyq_marks":[31],"pyq_topic":[78],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1475","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-46","pyq_marks-20-marks","pyq_topic-united-nations","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1475\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}