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The year 2020 marks the twentieth anniversary of the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution (“UNSCR”) 1325, the most important moment in the United Nations’ efforts to achieve world peace through gender equality. Over the past several decades, the international community has strengthened its focus on gender, including the relationship between gender and international peace and security. National governments and the United Nations have taken historic steps to elevate the role of women in governance and peacebuilding. The passage of UNSCR 1325 in 2000 foreshadowed what many hoped would be a transformational shift in international law and politics. However, the promise of gender equality has gone largely unrealized, despite the uncontroverted connection between treatment of women and the peacefulness of a nation. This Article argues for the first time that to achieve international peace and security through gender equality, the United Nations Security Council should transition its approach from making recommendations and suggestions to issuing mandatory requirements under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter. If the Security Council and the international community believe gender equality is the best indicator of sustainable peace, then the Security Council could make a finding under Article 39 with respect to ‘a threat to the peace’—States who continue to mistreat women and girls pose a threat to international peace and security. * BA, Sociology, Brigham Young University. ** JD, Brigham Young University Law School. *** Professor of Law, Brigham Young University Law School. The authors would like to thank the faculties of Emory Law School and SMU Dedman School of Law who provided extremely useful comments to earlier versions of this paper. Additionally, Summer Crockett and Kyra Waring provided excellent research and review assis-

World Peace and Gender Equality: Addressing UN Security Council Resolution 1325’s Weaknesses