Abstract
This blog post critically examines the trajectory of feminist peacebuilding from Bosnia Herzegovina to Gaza, exploring how the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has evolved over 25 years. It revisits the Dayton Peace Agreement as a landmark of post-conflict reconstruction shaped by patriarchal power structures and traces how similar logics persist in contemporary conflicts.
While the WPS framework has expanded women’s participation in peace processes, its transformative potential has often been reduced to formal inclusion within militarised systems. Drawing on feminist critiques, the post highlights the gap between policy rhetoric and lived realities, exposing enduring hierarchies and global asymmetries in defining “security.”
It calls for a renewed feminist peace agenda grounded in demilitarisation, intersectionality, and structural change rather than symbolic representation.