Joshi Madhav, Olsson Louise
Research Associate Professor & Associate Director of Peace Accords Matrix, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keogh School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, United States.
Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway.
Soc Sci Res. 2021 Feb;94:102523. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102523. Epub 2020 Dec 31.
Does the manner in which a civil war is terminated affect women's political rights developments? In this article, we develop an analytical framework showing how the context of war termination type affects both the opportunity and willingness of warring parties and their openness towards the influence of international actors, thereby making it possible to translate social ruptures and pressures from women's groups into post-war improvements in women's political rights. Studying 205 civil war terminations in 69 countries since 1989, we find support for our claim that a conflict terminated through the negotiation and implementation of a comprehensive peace agreement significantly improved women's political rights in the post-war period when compared to other types of conflict termination. This finding holds after controlling for the women's rights provisions negotiated in the agreement. Our results carry substantial policy relevance by underlining the significance of women's inclusion in peace processes.
内战结束的方式会影响女性政治权利的发展吗？在本文中，我们构建了一个分析框架，展示战争结束类型的背景如何影响交战各方的机会和意愿以及它们对国际行为体影响的开放程度，从而使将妇女团体的社会破裂和压力转化为战后女性政治权利的改善成为可能。通过研究自1989年以来69个国家的205次内战结束情况，我们发现有证据支持我们的观点，即与其他类型的冲突结束方式相比，通过谈判和实施全面和平协议而结束的冲突在战后时期显著改善了女性的政治权利。在控制了协议中谈判的妇女权利条款后，这一发现依然成立。我们的研究结果强调了妇女参与和平进程的重要性，具有重大的政策相关性。
