Advancing Feminist Foreign Policy in the Multilateral System: Key Debates and Challenges

To explore the future of FFPs, the International Peace Institute, in Neha Tetali, Arlene Tickner, and partnership with the Open Society Foundations and in collaboration with the Jennifer Thomson for their insights co-chairs of the Feminist Foreign Policy Plus (FFP+) Group, Chile and as external reviewers; Phoebe Germany, convened a retreat on Feminist Foreign Policy and Multilateralism Donnelly, A. [...] If FFP is to survive and grow, it will encompass welcomes consideration of a wide contradictions and compromises, and civil society and member states will range of perspectives in the pursuit have to collaborate to advance feminist principles in the multilateral arena. [...] • Militarization, demilitarization, and the root causes of violence; • Global perspectives and postcolonial critiques; • The branding and substance of FFPs; • The domestication of FFPs; and • Accountability and sustainability. [...] 2 ISSUE BRIEF Introduction demilitarization, and the root causes of violence; (2) global perspectives and postcolonial critiques; The recent growth of feminist foreign policy- (3) the branding and substance of FFPs; (4) the making has come at a complicated time, amidst domestication of FFPs; and (5) accountability and increased backlash against “gender ideology” and sustainability. [...] While the WPS agenda originated in civil society prior to institutionalization in states, FFP has done the opposite, originating in the state and moving top-down, “often to the surprise of civil society actors.”16 One challenge to linking FFPs and WPS is that it risks reinforcing some of the shortcomings of the WPS agenda.