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Engendering the Global Agenda: The Story of Women and the United Nations

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The founding of the League of Nations marked the beginning of organized and
institutionalized intergovernmental collaboration in a form which was unprecedented in world
history. This was the first step in intergovernmental foreign policy towards supranational
goals – such as peace and security – instead of each nation merely defending their individual
interests against the interests of others. Women immediately seemed to realise the nature of
the cooperation in the making. They had good reason to become interested in this new
development. First, all intergovernmental cooperation aiming at the ending of wars and
violence and the settlement of disputes through negotiations corresponded with the yearning
for peace in women’s minds. This desire was particularly strong in everybody’s mind after
having experienced the destruction and horrors of war in massive proportions, as was the case
after both of the World Wars.

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Switzerland : NGLS., 2002

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