Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>On 31 October 2000, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 under the title of ‘women and peace and security’—the first formal resolution requiring parties in conflict to prevent violations of women’s rights, support their participation in peace processes and post-conflict reconstruction, and protect women and girls from wartime sexual violence. This resolution, along with those that followed, forms the normative foundation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. This book examines how networked civil society advocates for the WPS agenda, with all the effects and affects thereof. It focuses on the UK case, arguing that its geopolitical positioning and vibrant civil society network make it a site of particular relevance to the wider study of the WPS agenda, and especially the role of civil society therein, but with applicability elsewhere. Drawing on extensive original research, including interviews and documentary sources from both government and civil society, the book analyses the discursive and affective politics of WPS advocacy. It situates this within a broader framework attentive to the political economy of NGOs, affective entanglements between state and civil society, and the global forces of militarism, imperialism, neoliberalism, and patriarchy into which civil society is interpolated. These systems are not only structures in which they are interpolated but also forces that they paradoxically challenge, serve, and reproduce. Historically and institutionally grounded in the UK case, with its distinctive gendered logics, the book illuminates the paradoxical politics at the heart of WPS advocacy.</jats:p>