Source: LSE The Centre for Women, Peace and Security

*Bela Kapur

Syrian women – and the Syrian Women’s Political Movement – have much to teach us at this moment in time. Their experience helps us understand the effects of entrenched gender discrimination and how those effects are deepened and widened during unrest and conflict. They help us to understand just how hard it is to change norms, beliefs and behaviours and to re-shape the practices, societies and institutions that reflect and indeed perpetuate those same norms, beliefs and behaviours.  They help us understand the importance of ensuring women’s full and meaningful participation in peace and transitional processes to bring about the very comprehensiveness and sustainability of peace which underpin and are reinforced by equal, just and free societies.

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