In Progress

This article points to the contradiction inherent to the connection made to the Security Council Resolution 1325 by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, a military alliance. It was written to prompt a discussion among women of the ‘Women against NATO’ e-group list, a network of women in NATO member-states contributing to the No-to-NATO movement. The author suggests that the framing of 1325, especially matters it failed to include, left the Resolution hostage to co-optation by militarist states and military institutions for military purposes. This article explores four major contradictions in Resolution 1325, in antimilitarist feminist activism, and suggests some questions we might now want to ask ourselves in our efforts to transcend them.