Promote a feminist security

Feminism has made many contributions to articulate a security model based on the promotion of peace, that is, on the promotion of a dignified life for everyone and on the eradication of all forms of inequality and violence, both on a local and global scale.

From this feminist point of view, ICIP prioritizes promoting the ethics of care in the security model and understanding the challenges that security faces in everyday life. It involves making visible the conditions that structure the day-to-day lives of people and communities and that shape their (in)securities, such as patriarchy, racism and colonialism, militarism, imperialism, capitalism and extractivism.

Within this line of work, one of the reference frameworks is Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, approved in 2000 by the United Nations Security Council to promote the protection of women’s rights and their participation in peace processes. This Resolution ― and other subsequent ones on sexual violence and the involvement of young people, Indigenous communities and LGTBIQ+ people ― although it still has a partial deployment, influences the definition of national policies and foreign action.