A Letter on Feminist Peace

Contributor(s): | How could we create a world founded on an inclusive and intersectional concept of humanity and peaceful existence for all peoples?
In September 2019, the Feminist International Law of Peace and Security project, at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace & Security, convened a workshop involving 19 legal academics and practitioners with the idea of drafting an alternative Security Council resolution to coincide with a number of anniversaries in 2020. The aim of the exercise was to reclaim the Women, Peace & Security agenda and to recast it as a transformative peace agenda, as originally envisaged by many women’s civil society groups at the time of its adoption. A year later, members of the team finalised the wording of a letter to the Member States of the General Assembly to be released on 21 September, International Peace Day. The letter draws attention to the failures of states to date to deliver on the promises of their forefathers at the founding of the United Nations and, in doing so, sets out a path forward to meet the twin aims of equality and peace, advocated for by decades of feminist activism.
This film captures that letter in both voice and illustration; it is read by feminist and women’s rights activists in many languages and is interpreted through illustration.
Download a rationale of the Letter Illustration by artist Rose (pdf) 
Keywords: Centre for Women, Peace & Security, Letter on Feminist Peace, Security Council, feminism, equality, peace, activism, Shaping the Post-COVID World