In October 2000, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1325 and created the Women, Peace and Security agenda. To commemorate the resolution’s 25th anniversary, this compendium features a collection of articles published on The Strategist. This series reflects on the progress made since 2000, including the transformative changes in women’s representation across security.

This policy document presents a long-term vision for how Australia's development program will meet the critical needs of our partners, while also supporting Australia’s national interests and the interests shared with other countries in our region.

Recognising that the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is not an add-on to the security agenda, but is intrinsic to it, this paper suggests that there is scope for Australia to progress genuine partnership with the Pacific and support these efforts through greater collaboration.

This paper provides a preliminary examination of factors in common to riot events across the Pacific region over the past 15 years.

This is the fifteenth edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the GPI is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness.