'Localising the Global' – Resolution 1325 as a Tool for Promoting Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Rwanda

Title'Localising the Global' – Resolution 1325 as a Tool for Promoting Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Rwanda
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsMadsen, Diana
JournalWomen's Studies International Forum
Volume66
Pagination70 - 78
Date Published01/2018
Abstract

This article explores how the global gender language and the global norms laid out in Resolution 1325 has been used by national women's organisations working as ‘localising agents’ in transformative processes where the gender norms laid out have become part of the gender vocabulary of the women's organisations and been appropriated. The article also explores to which extent Resolution 1325 has worked as promoting women's rights and gender equality at the level of local women's groups and identifies some tension with local understandings of gender and local practices indicating that further localising is needed.

URLhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539516302072?via%3Dihub
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