Background: Militarization of the European Security and Defence Policy

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| Full Text of UN-Resolution 1325 You can find the complete text of UN Resolution 1325 [here]

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|  Further Information in the Web German Women's Security Council [Council] Resolution 1325 in GLOW [1325] peacewomen.org [News and Information]

The EU as a whole and the single member states are becoming more and more part of military interventions, for example in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Afghanistan, the Lebanon, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the last years the EU has developed different instruments and concepts to achieve peace in conflict regions and countries with crisis. Some of these are civilian forms of interventions and conflict forms of intervention and conflict management such as instruments for stabilisation and security sector reform. The central effort and financial investigation of the EU is made, however, in the military field. A further militarization of the European Security and Defence Policy is looming with the formulation of the European Security Strategy, the development of EU intervention forces and the building of a European Defence Agency.

Human rights and strategic interests such as securing access to oil and other natural resources become calamitously and deliberately entangled. Common to all of these approaches is: their gender blindness. Issues of women's politics and gender equality are barely or not at all taken into account even though they are mandatory under Resolution 1325.

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Aktualisiert: 15.01.2008, kra