Lyric Thompson is writing a series of articles covering the tenth anniversary of SCR 1325. Read her first report The politics of peace

Recent articles in the 5050 debate:

• Is it time for a worldwide strategy for the building of peace ?

• Within the hell of war lies a private hell

• Getting to peace: what kind of movement ?

• The challenge of moving from war to peace

• Resist, reclaim, restore: militarism no more

• Vital peace constituencies

• The meaning of peace in the 21st century

• Peacework: lessons we have failed to learn

• War and sexual violence: an issue of security

• The changing face of war

• Laureate Mairead Maguire: building deep democracy

• Laureate Jody Williams: telling it like it is

• What's wrong with a democratic world with justice,equality,development and peace?

In 2005, five years after UN Resolution 1325 gave women decision-making power to resolve conflict and build peace, openDemocracy asked what it had achieved. Read articles by women around the world here. Read the multi authored blog here.