One Year On: Norway and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the UN Security Council

​January 2022 marks the halfway point in Norway’s two-year membership in the UN Security Council. In the context of Norway entering the last phase of its Security Council membership, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) published a summary outlining the country’s achievements in the Council so far. ​Norway's accomplishments – as proclaimed in this summary – include encouraging references to Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in Council resolutions. Norway's work to ensure references to women's participation in the resolution for the UN's mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and its efforts to promote the acknowledgement of the important role played by women in the global pandemic response, are examples of such work. Yet, beyond these references, has Norway delivered on its goal to meaningfully strengthen the WPS agenda?