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# UN SCR 1325: the 50.50 debate
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/un-scr-1325-5050-debate/
- Published: 2010-09-28T17:09:23.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T20:47:28.000Z
- Description: In 2000 UN Security Council Resolution 1325 gave women decision-making power in preventing conflict and building peace. As the 10th anniversary of 1325 approaches read recent openDemocracy articles examining the role of women in working for peace.
- Author: Jane Gabriel
- Tags: Resolution 1325 ten years on, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 14:30

Lyric Thompson is writing a series of articles covering the tenth anniversary of SCR 1325\. Read her first report [The politics of peace](http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/lyric-thompson/politics-of-peace-taking-stock-of-progress-at-10th-anniversary-of-1325)

Recent articles in the 5050 debate:

- [Is it time for a worldwide strategy for the building of peace ?](../../5050/scilla-elworthy/is-it-time-for-worldwide-strategy-for-building-of-peace)
- [Within the hell of war lies a private hell](../../5050/laura-carlsen/within-hell-of-war-lies-private-hell)
- [Getting to peace: what kind of movement ?](../../5050/cynthia-cockburn/getting-to-peace-what-kind-of-movement)
- [The challenge of moving from war to peace](../../5050/bridget-walker/challenge-of-moving-from-war-to-peace)
- [Resist, reclaim, restore: militarism no more](../../article/email/resist-reclaim-restore-militarism-no-more)
- [Vital peace constituencies](../../5050/shelley-anderson/vital-peace-constituencies)
- [The meaning of peace in the 21st century](../../democracy-fifty/meaning%5Fcentury%5F4670.jsp)
- [Peacework: lessons we have failed to learn](../../democracy-fifty/war%5Fpeace%5Fwomen%5F4664.jsp)
- [War and sexual violence: an issue of security](../../article/5050/16%5Fdays/war%5Fsexual%5Fviolence)
- [The changing face of war](../../blog/rosemary-bechler/2008/06/03/the-changing-face-of-war)
- [Laureate Mairead Maguire: building deep democracy](../../audio/jane-gabriel/laureate-mairead-maguire-building-deep-democracy)
- [Laureate Jody Williams: telling it like it is](../../audio/jane-gabriel/laureate-jody-williams-telling-it-like-it-is)
- [What's wrong with a democratic world with justice,equality,development and peace?](http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/cora-weiss/what%E2%80%99s-wrong-with-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](../../democracy-resolution%5F1325/issue.jsp). Read the multi authored blog [here](../../blog/women%5Fmaking%5Fa%5Fdifference).