A High-Level NAP 1325 Signatory Event ‘’Navigating 1325 in a New Security Reality’’
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and WO=MEN Dutch Gender Platform invite you to
A High-Level NAP 1325 Signatory Event ‘’Navigating 1325 in a New Security Reality’’
Date: 4 November 2025
Location: The Hague (venue to be communicated)
Working language: English
Please RSVP by 30 October here
Description:
In 2025 we mark the 25th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, the foundation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Over the past decades, the Netherlands has worked to advance the full WPS agenda and this commitment remains strong for the years ahead. This anniversary comes at a moment of heightened global instability. Hybrid warfare, gendered disinformation, shrinking civic space and growing pushback against gender equality are eroding resilience and undermining inclusive security.
This event brings together policy makers, military professionals, and civil society organisations. The conference concentrates on a number of areas where WPS directly meets today’s security and global challenges and aims to:
1) Bridge: share 25 years of WPS experience and strengthen collaboration for inclusive peace, security and resilience in the face of current threats.
2) Inspire: sharpen understanding of how WPS can address today’s threats and strengthen resilience.
3) Equip: generate strategic insights and perspectives to face today’s new security and global reality.
During the morning session there will be a number of key note speeches and after the networking lunch there will be four parallel side sessions (panel discussions), covering the following topics:
1) Participation: from Pushback to Power
Major conflicts are increasingly negotiated in closed and exclusive formats, with only partial agreements reached, often focused on ceasefires, humanitarian access or the structure of future peace talks (UNSG WPS report2024). This session will explore how women peacebuilders, peace negotiators and mediators operate in an increasingly exclusive environment, and what structures, resources, and partnerships are needed to counter the growing pushback on women peacebuilders.
2) Gender Responsive Leadership - Effectively engaging the current security narrative
This session will look at how leaders — in the military, diplomacy, and civil society — can counter and complement investment in military hardware, contribute to and emphasize the urgent need for investing in societal resilience and cohesion as part of inclusive peace and security.
3) Prevention - Conflict prevention in a hybrid threat environment
This session will explore how the WPS agenda can help strengthen both military and societal resilience by focusing on conflict prevention. Are our current conflict prevention efforts as well as efforts in transitional justice processes equipped to counter the gendered and hybrid nature of these threats?
4) Protection - Responding to increased use of gender based violence in conflict
This session will explore how WPS can address deliberate targeting of women and communities, including CRSV and technology-facilitated gender-based violence. What are effective responses in terms of accountability and countering impunity, reconciliation, comprehensive support to survivors of CRSV?
Please RSVP here
by October 30