Gender provisions in peace agreements and gender equality in post-agreement settings: Cases of the Philippines and Colombia

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This thesis scrutinized the relationship between the gender provisions in peace agreements and post-agreement gender equality. This possible relationship was underinvestigated before. In this vein, the current research filled the lacuna in the literature by examining whether including gender-related provisions in peace agreements has any relationship with gender equality in issues of the post-agreement situations in conflict-affected countries. The two cases of post-conflict countries, Colombia and the Philippines, were comparatively analyzed. The Colombian and the Philippines peace agreements were analyzed using the textual analysis method. Gender equality in the post-agreement period of these countries was measured by using several indicators for political, social, and economic issues. While showing the importance of gender provisions in the peace agreements, the data employed in this study also found out that post-agreement gender equality does not entirely depend on the content of the peace agreement. However, findings revealed other factors such as specificity and applicability of the provisions, implementation related-problems, complexity of achieving gender equality that influence the relationship between the peace agreements and post-agreement gender equality.