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Gender Equality In Bosnia-Herzegovina

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In its history, Bosnia-Herzegovina has seen its fair share of hardship. In the wake of World War II, then known as Yugoslavia, faced Nazi occupation. The German invasion set up a kind of puppet government in Croatia and proceeded to participate in the ethnic cleansing that was being implemented all over Europe. This ethnic cleansing saw the murder of Jews, Gypsies, Serbs, and other ethnic groups. When the war ended in 1945, the communist leader Josip Broz Tito declared himself president of Yugoslavia. He ruled with an iron fist in a manner that echoed the regime in the Soviet Union ("Bosnia and Herzegovina”). Despite his tough rule of law, Tito granted the women of Yugoslavia full civil and political rights for the very first time in the country’s …show more content…

Its main objectives included increasing women’s participation at all levels of decision making, adopting a gender perspective in peace negotiations, and the protection of women from violence during and after conflict. The Resolution hoped to incorporate gender mainstreaming a process of adopting gender perspective in all aspects of government and daily life. Most, if not all, governments and people the world over agree wholeheartedly with the idea of gender equality, how could they not. However, the problems that remain are these; Resolution 1325 first does not include any direction as to how to implement the sentiments expressed and second, gender takes a back seat when “real issues” arise. Essentially, when all is calm, 1325 is put into place and an important staple within the United Nations, but when an emergency happens it is put aside and is deemed not as important. In order for Security Resolution 1325 to improve the quality and effectiveness of peacekeeping, it requires international actors to put pressure on domestic actors. There needs to be an increased focus on design of implementation. Nations and international actors like the United Nations need to take inclusion seriously. If nations like Bosnia and Herzegovina who have a history of gender inequality, can take it upon themselves to make gender is relevant to “hard politics” and attempt to include it in their daily life, anything is

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