I had an interesting conversation recently with a diplomat whom I have worked with on and off over the past few years. He expressed the following view: that there was no other international policy area like the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda in terms of the attention and traction it holds in the UN Security Council. He went on to imply that the Security Council had almost been held to ransom by aggressive women and antagonistic women’s organizations whose demands, he felt, were far from the ideals they espoused. He inferred that this particular policy agenda had been one of the most difficult he had had to deal with in his career as a result.
United Nations flag. Photo: ASIL.org
