Women and Peace Building.

Byline: Yasmine Salman

The goal of achieving peace and peaceful coexistence is a prerequi site for the complete well-being of people. That peacekeeping is an important and necessary issue that the United Nations seeks to consolidate with the participation of many of its offices and is a prerequisite for achieving sustainable development goals.

Because of the importance of the issue of peace, the United Nations has included Goal 16, which consolidates equitable, peaceful, and belonging societies, and requires member states to consolidate peaceful coexistence between people, reduce the flow of weapons, and combat organized crime and all kinds of violence in all countries of the world. Within the sustainable development goals that the nations included on December 1, 2016, in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Resolutions, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution, and its tenth item explicitly discuss the problem of the spread of gender-based violence in conflict areas. There is no doubt that the seventeenth goal of the sustainable development goals is consistent with United Nations Resolution No. 1325, adopted unanimously on 10/31/2000 on women, peace, and security.

Resolution (1325) is also considered the first official and legal document that includes an international political commitment, a significant step in developing women's issues, and a tool for empowering women in peacemaking and mobilizing them as a practical human resource in this field. Resolution (1325) consists of 18 points, which some may see as overlapping and cannot be implemented on the ground for some countries, and its lack of mandatory measures.

New international standards protect and integrate women at all levels and identify women as actors, which enabled women to claim their rights. It also encouraged countries to implement gender-based programs. It should be noted that Iraq, along with Jordan and Palestine, was one of the first countries in the Arab region to develop national plans adopted since 2014. The issue of activating the role of women in peacebuilding faces many challenges. As noted by reviewing the official reports of the United Nations Women and published studies, the contribution of...