In parallel with the rise of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda after theadoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000, consociationalpower sharing has emerged as the model of choice for post-conict governance within

the international peacebuilding community. Although both WPS and power sharinghave inclusion at their core, however, the literature on power sharing has thus farexclusively focused on the connection between power sharing and democracy, andpower sharing's ability to ensure ethnic minority representation in decision-makingprocesses, with no clear attention given to gender. Similarly, feminist political theoryand WPS-related research have not explored the role of power-sharing in-depth.While previous research has not examined the potential eects of political inclusivepower sharing, this thesis thereby addresses a central knowledge gap on thepotentially illusory connection between political inclusive power sharing in postcon