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Since 2000, with the introduction of Security Council Resolutions on women, peace, and security, the United Nations has asserted that the environment enabling peace agreements become more inclusive of women and that gender perspectives be taken into account throughout the peace building process. This chapter draws on examples from the Northern Ireland peace process to show the changes that took place when a group of women moved out of the political activism of civic society to become engaged in the more formal politics of peace negotiations. The women activists grasped the opportunities of the \u201cconstitutional moment\u201d to frame gender specific interests within the new constitutional framework of the 1998 Belfast\/Good Friday Agreement. They built on skills honed through years of activism to form the Women\u2019s Coalition, a political party that was involved in the multi-party peace negotiations, and became signatories to the peace agreement. However, in the transitional space that opens up following a peace agreement, what gets resourced and implemented often falls short of what was promised. Despite its success in the negotiating process, enforcing the proposals on women\u2019s interests in the aftermath proved to be the most difficult task. Where a democratic deficit exists, with women continuing to be excluded from political participation, those whohave struggled to build a new society will ask for whom was the reconstruction meant. For a genuinely transformative process to take place, women\u2019s interests must not be left in the\u201caspirational\/to do\u201d list but instead form a central part of the \u201cconstitutional\u201d and legislative guarantees for the new society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2719156\">Access the book chapter online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Monica McWilliams Where violence and conflict have become the norm, negotiating an agreement built on peace and justice can be a challenging prospect for those involved. 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