This volume aims at a reality-check of the impressive to-dos list since the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 was adopted in 2000. The authors look at the gap between the aspirations and the reality, the ideal and the practice, the promises and the action, the euphoria and the despair. The volume compiles carefully selected essays woven around Resolution 1325 to tease out the intricacies within both the Resolution and its implementation.