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Pieces of the Same Puzzle: Men, Masculinities, and the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2025

Philipp Schulz Open the ORCID record for Philipp Schulz [Opens in a new window]  and
Chloé Lewis
Philipp Schulz*
Affiliation:
Institute of Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen , Bremen, Germany
Chloé Lewis
Affiliation:
Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice, Washington, DC, USA
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Corresponding author: Philipp Schulz; Email: pschulz@uni-bremen.de
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As we mark 25 years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), the place of this landmark agenda on the global political stage has never been more fragile, nor more fraught. In the same breath, the importance of paying careful and critical attention to men, masculinities, and their positioning in and relationship to the WPS agenda — and peace and security writ large — has never been more apparent, nor more urgent. By calling attention to women’s diverse roles in and experiences of armed conflict within the world’s paramount security body, the unanimous adoption of UNSCR 1325 by the Security Council was groundbreaking.

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Politics & Gender , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , September 2025 , pp. 711 - 717
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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