Gender Conflict And Peacekeeping

Author : Dyan Mazurana,Angela Raven-Roberts,Jane Parpart, Research Professor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780742581326

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Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping by Dyan Mazurana,Angela Raven-Roberts,Jane Parpart, Research Professor Pdf

Peacekeeping has become a major international undertaking throughout the world, from Africa to the Americas, from Europe to Southeast Asia. Yet until now, there has been no systematic analysis of the key role of gender in post-cold war conflicts and of post-conflict peacekeeping efforts. This groundbreaking volume explores how gender has become a central factor in shaping current thinking about the causes and consequences of armed conflict, complex emergencies, and reconstruction. Drawing on expertise ranging from the highest levels of international policymaking down to the daily struggle to implement peacekeeping operations, this work represents the full span of knowledge and experience about international intervention in local crises. Presenting a rich array of examples from Angola, Bosnia Herzegovina, East Timor, El Salvador, the former Yugoslavia, Guatemala, Haiti, Kosovo, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, and Serbia, the authors offer important insights for future peacekeeping and humanitarian missions.

Author : Sabrina Karim,Kyle Beardsley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190602437

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Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping by Sabrina Karim,Kyle Beardsley Pdf

Recent developments such as Sweden's' Feminist Foreign Policy, the "Hillary Doctrine," and the integration of women into combat roles in the U.S. have propelled gender equality to the forefront of international politics. The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, however, has been integrating gender equality into peacekeeping missions for nearly two decades as part of the women, peace and security agenda that has been most clearly articulated in UNSC Resolution 1325. To what extent have peacekeeping operations achieved gender equality in peacekeeping operations and been vehicles for promoting gender equality in post-conflict states? While there have been major improvements related to women's participation and protection, there is still much left to be desired. Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley argue that gender power imbalances between the sexes and among genders place restrictions on the participation of women in peacekeeping missions. Specifically, discrimination, a relegation of women to safe spaces, and sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment, and violence (SEAHV) continue to threaten progress on gender equality. Using unique cross-national data on sex-disaggregated participation of peacekeepers and on the allegations of SEAHV, as well as original data from the UN Mission in Liberia, the authors examine the origins and consequences of these challenges. Karim and Beardsley also identify and examine how increasing the representation of women in peacekeeping forces, and even more importantly through enhancing a more holistic value for "equal opportunity," can enable peacekeeping operations to overcome the challenges posed by power imbalances and be more of an example of and vehicle for gender equality globally.

Author : Inger Skjelsboek,Dan Smith
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761968539

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Gender, Peace and Conflict by Inger Skjelsboek,Dan Smith Pdf

Gender is increasingly recognized as central to the study and analysis of the traditionally male domains of war and international relations. The book explores the key role of gender in peace research, conflict resolution and international politics. Rather than simply add gender and stir the aim is to transcend different disciplinary boundaries and conceptual approaches to provide a more integrated basis for research and study. To this end Gender, Peace & Conflict uniquely combines theoretical chapters alongside empirical case studies, to demonstrate the importance of a gender perspective to both theory and practice in conflict resolution and peace research.

Author : Claire Duncanson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745682556

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Gender and Peacebuilding by Claire Duncanson Pdf

Gender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations. It draws on a wide range of examples from across the world to offer a nuanced account of the UN's attempts to mainstream gender into peace operations via Security Council Resolution 1325, and assesses the successes and failures of this effort to enhance the participation and protection of women and girls in peacebuilding operations. In presenting this mixed picture of progress and ongoing challenges, the book argues for bold steps forward that will enable peacebuilding to contest the current neoliberal order, address structural inequalities, and bring about feminist visions of peace and security. It is only by focusing attention on the economic empowerment of women and its ability to temper the dangers of neo-liberalism in post-conflict contexts that feminists can hope to achieve these aims. Timely, critical and engaged, this book provides an invaluable guide to the issues for students of peace and conflict studies, and sets the agenda for future scholarship and advocacy.

Author : Elisabeth Porter,Anuradha Mundkur
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780702249228

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Peace and Security by Elisabeth Porter,Anuradha Mundkur Pdf

What is being done in conflict-affected countries to advance women's participation in peace processes and decision-making? In Peace and Security: Implications for women the authors combine a broad overview with specific local knowledge to examine the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, 'Women, Peace and Security'. They present case studies from Timor-Leste, Fiji and Sri Lanka to suggest the necessary steps to protect women and girls from violence, to ensure the perspectives of women in peacekeeping are not overlooked, and to increase the participation of women in decision-making. While identifying obstacles, the emphasis is on articulating best practices in numerous contexts and outlining key actions to be taken by development agencies, women's NGOs and policy-makers. In recognising the role of women, the authors, argue the cause of peace will be better served. Through the lens of women suffering from war imposed upon them from above, and women contributing to peace processes by working collaboratively from below, Peace and Security provides practical and transferable learning opportunities for advancing women's security and women's participation in leadership roles. Book jacket.

Author : Louise Olsson
Publisher : Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015042554959

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Gendering UN Peacekeeping by Louise Olsson Pdf

Author : Louise Olsson,Torrun L. Truggestad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135286378

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Women and International Peacekeeping by Louise Olsson,Torrun L. Truggestad Pdf

This volume deals with women's participation in international peacekeeping operations and what those operations might consider to be the role and circumstances of women, including those of the host society. Essays include: a theoretical perspective on women and war, highlighting the difference between post-modernist and universalist approaches to women's roles in peacemaking and conflict resolution, the role of women in military operations, the implications of the high levels of sexual violence in peacekeeping operations and the UN's gender policy for peacekeeping operations.

Author : Rawwida Baksh-Soodeen
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0850927544

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Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Transformation by Rawwida Baksh-Soodeen Pdf

Issues of socio-economic development, democracy and peace are linked to gender equality. This book argues that gender equality needs to be placed on the policy and programme agenda of the entire spectrum of peace and conflict-related initiatives and activities to achieve conflict transformation.

Author : Funmi Olonisakin,Karen Barnes,Eka Ikpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136868085

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Women, Peace and Security by Funmi Olonisakin,Karen Barnes,Eka Ikpe Pdf

This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender equality within conflict-affected countries. UN Resolution 1325 was adopted in October 2000, and was the first time that the security concerns of women in situations of armed conflict and their role in peacebuilding was placed on the agenda of the UN Security Council. It was an important step forward in terms of bringing women’s rights and gender equality to bear in the UN’s peace and security agenda. More than a decade after the adoption of this Resolution, its practical reality is yet to be substantially felt on the ground in the very societies and regions where women remain disproportionately affected by armed conflict and grossly under-represented in peace processes. This realization, in part, led to the adoption in 2008 and 2009 of three other Security Council Resolutions, on sexual violence in conflict, violence against women, and for the development of indicators to measure progress in addressing women, peace and security issues. The book draws together the findings from eight countries and four regional contexts to provide guidance on how the impact of Resolution 1325 can be measured, and how peacekeeping operations could improve their capacity to effectively engender security. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, gender studies, the United Nations, international security and IR in general.

Author : G. Heathcote,D. Otto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137400215

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Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security by G. Heathcote,D. Otto Pdf

This book examines how the Security Council has approached issues of gender equality since 2000. Written by academics, activists and practitioners the book challenges the reader to consider how women's participation, gender equality, sexual violence and the prevalence of economic disadvantages might be addressed in post-conflict communities.

Author : Louise Olsson,Theodora-Ismene Gizelis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317627944

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Gender, Peace and Security by Louise Olsson,Theodora-Ismene Gizelis Pdf

This volume explores the implementation of key gender policies in international peace and security, following the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325 in October 2000, the first thematic resolution on Women, Peace and Security. How should we understand women’s participation in peace processes and in peace operations? And what forms of gendered security dynamics are present in armed conflict and international interventions? These questions represent central themes of protection and participation that the international community has to address in order to implement UNSCR 1325. Thus far, the implementation has often employed varying approaches related to gender mainstreaming, a third theme of the resolution. Yet, there is a dearth of systematic data which until recently has restricted the ability of researchers to evaluate the progress in implementation and impact of UNSCR 1325. By engaging with both empirics and critical theory, the authors of this edited volume make important contributions to the gender, peace and security agenda. They identify some of the problems of implementing UNSC 1325 and offer a sobering assessment of progress of implementation and insights into how to advance our understanding through systematic research. Many of the chapters are focused on operational aspects of UNSCR 1325, but all also engage with the theoretical underpinnings of UNSCR 1325 to bring forth central debates on more fundamental challenges to the development of knowledge in the fields of gender, peace and security. This book will be of much interest to students of gender studies, peace and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general.

Author : Fredline Amaybel Olayinka M'Cormack-Hale
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849290746

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Gender, Peace and Security by Fredline Amaybel Olayinka M'Cormack-Hale Pdf

Examines women's role in both conflict and post-conflict reconciliation. It describes how UNSCR 1325 provides support for women in peace-building processes and provides case studies of how it has been implemented in selected countries, including the benefits of NAPs and women's involvement in their adoption.

Author : Fionnuala Ní Aoláin,Dina Francesca Haynes,Naomi Cahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199910052

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On the Frontlines by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin,Dina Francesca Haynes,Naomi Cahn Pdf

Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention was devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states. Thankfully, that is changing. Today, in a variety of post-conflict settings--the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Colombia, Northern Ireland --international advocates for women's rights have focused bringing issues of sexual violence, discrimination and exclusion into peace-making processes. In On the Frontlines, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Naomi Cahn consider such policies in a range of cases and assess the extent to which they have had success in improving women's lives. They argue that there has been too little success, and that this is in part a product of a focus on schematic policies like straightforward political incorporation rather than a broader and deeper attempt to alter the cultures and societies that are at the root of much of the violence and exclusions experienced by women. They contend that this broader approach would not just benefit women, however. Gender mainstreaming and increased gender equality has a direct correlation with state stability and functions to preclude further conflict. If we are to have any success in stabilizing failing states, gender needs to move to fore of our efforts. With this in mind, they examine the efforts of transnational organizations, states and civil society in multiple jurisdictions to place gender at the forefront of all post-conflict processes. They offer concrete analysis and practical solutions to ensuring gender centrality in all aspects of peace making and peace enforcement.

Author : Annica Kronsell,Erika Svedberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136632143

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Making Gender, Making War by Annica Kronsell,Erika Svedberg Pdf

Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping. It highlights the institutions and processes involved in the making of gender in terms of both men and women, masculinity and femininity. The "war question for feminism" marks a thematic red thread throughout; it is a call to students and scholars of feminism to take seriously and engage with the task of analyzing war. Contributors analyze how war-making is intertwined with the making of gender in a diversity of empirical case studies, organized around four themes: gender, violence and militarism; how the making of gender is connected to a (re)making of the nation through military practices; UN SCR 1325 and gender mainstreaming in institutional practices; and gender subjectivities in the organization of violence, exploring the notion of violent women and non-violent men.

Author : Nicola Pratt,Sophie Richter-Devroe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134924233

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Gender, Governance and International Security by Nicola Pratt,Sophie Richter-Devroe Pdf

The United Nations Security Council, in 2000, unanimously passed a resolution calling for women’s increased participation in conflict prevention and peacebuilding, as well as their protection during conflict. This marked the first time that the UN Security Council explicitly addressed gender issues in ‘conflict’ and ‘post-conflict’ situations. But what difference has this international agenda on ‘Women, Peace and Security’ made to women’s lives on the ground and to the governance of international peace and security? This volume provides a critical evaluation of the mainstreaming of gender issues in matters of international peace and security resulting from the passage of Resolution 1325 in 2000. It considers how this agenda actually plays out in different contexts, and with what implications for women’s activism and for peace and security. The picture that emerges is not uniform, obliging us to reconsider the links between gender, conflict, different visions of peace and, consequently, different projects of peacebuilding. Consequently, the book poses new questions for transnational feminist scholars and activists. This book was based on a special issue of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.