Northern Ireland and WPS Mind the GAPS

Northern Ireland is key to understanding the domestic implementation of the WPS agenda and how the UK applies this to a region that falls within their borders. The fifth UK National Action Plan on WPS included domestic aspects of WPS, for the first time, which GAPS has advocated for many years. This now opens up the space to discuss what good WPS in Northern Ireland looks like and how the UK can support this. In this episode, we create space to learn from and understand how women-led peacebuilding in Northern Ireland has shaped how gender, peace and security are understood both inside and outside of Northern Ireland. Eva Tabbasam, Director, and Detmer Kremer, Policy Advocacy and Communications Coordinator, both at GAPS, are joined by Eileen Weir of the Shankill Women’s Centre, Jane Morrice, former deputy speaker of the Northern Irish Assembly, and Jonna Monaghan, of GAPS member Women’s Platform. To learn more, read Women’s Platform’s report A Women’s Vision here, which asked women of all backgrounds in NI what NI would look like, if it worked for women.