UN Security Council Resolution 2122 on Women's Leadership
UNSCR 2122 turned the Council's attention back on itself — committing to more consistent, systematic attention to women's participation in its own work, and pushing for women's inclusion in the specific mechanics of peace processes.
Thirteen years after 1325, the Security Council's own working methods still did not reflect the WPS agenda. Women's organisations were rarely invited to brief the Council, and WPS considerations were routinely absent from country-specific resolutions. The High-Level Review of 1325, scheduled for 2015, needed preparation — and the Council needed to demonstrate its own commitment before asking member states to do more.
UNSCR 2122 was designed to address the Council's own performance on WPS — committing to more systematic briefings from UN Women and the SRSG-SVC, and to integrating WPS provisions into all peacekeeping mandates.
UNSCR 2122 was the first WPS resolution to scrutinise the Security Council's own performance. It acknowledged that the Council had not been sufficiently systematic in its attention to WPS and committed to specific institutional reforms, including regular briefings from UN Women.
The resolution also introduced specificity about the processes in which women should participate — elections, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR), security sector reform (SSR), and judicial reform — moving beyond general calls for participation to identify concrete entry points.