Women, Gender, and Everyday Social Transformation in India
agenda has increasingly been co opted into the war on terror, and questions need to be raised about the dangers of a military interventionism that is justified by reference to women's rights, an inherent danger in securitising these issues (see Pratt and RichterDevroe 2014; Wibben 2011) At the same time, the WPS agenda continues to thrive thanks largely to activists pushing for their countries to develop NAPs and using the leverage, however small, that the UNSC resolutions provide in their activism beyond NAPs. Indeed, while 'for many of us, these resolutions do not go far enough to confront patriarchy and militarism, and instead keeps us inside the same economic global system that contributes to these conflicts' as Rosalind Boyd (p. 11) notes, 'the UN remains the only body where we are able to address our concerns to all member states' This book is an important contribution to thinking deeper and acting smarter as far as gender responsive human security is concerned and it challenges us to broaden our analysis to think beyond those neat distinctions between peace and war or security and economics, that limit our analyses and actions. With concrete lessons learned and clearly articulated recommendations for future action, the book is an important addition to the excellent Ashgate 'Gender in a Global/Local World' series, and a must read for practitioners and scholars grappling with the security development nexus.