 Gender Training for the Security Sectory : Lessons Identified and Practical Resources
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces
        
                    
        
                            
'In June 2012, thirty-six gender training experts from around the world gathered in Geneva to share and discuss global best practices in delivering gender training to defence, police and security-related audiences. This report seeks to document the wealth of practical information shared during the workshop by drawing out lessons identified as well as useful tips and pointers. The report also includes a sizeable collection of tried-and-tested gender training exercises as well as an extensive list of additional resources such as publications, short videos and other electronic training materials.'
*also available online
                    
        
            Gender Training for the Security Sectory : Lessons Identified and Practical Resources
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces
        
                    
        
                            
'In June 2012, thirty-six gender training experts from around the world gathered in Geneva to share and discuss global best practices in delivering gender training to defence, police and security-related audiences. This report seeks to document the wealth of practical information shared during the workshop by drawing out lessons identified as well as useful tips and pointers. The report also includes a sizeable collection of tried-and-tested gender training exercises as well as an extensive list of additional resources such as publications, short videos and other electronic training materials.'
*also available online
        
                            
        
        
                     A Women's Guide to Security Sector Reform
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Megan BASTICK & Tobie WHITMAN
        
                    
        
                            
'This report seeks to encourage and empower women to take part in shaping and transforming the security sector in their communities and countries. Even if they have not formally studied security, women often have essential knowledge of community security needs, and have an important contribution to make to security sector reform (SSR). This guide provides both information on the security sector and SSR, and tools for action. It draws on the rich and varied experience of women in civil society from across the world and shares examples of practical, and sometimes innovative, ways to influence reform from the grassroots. Input from leading female activists from Afghanistan, Liberia, Libya, Nepal, Serbia, and Uganda helped to shape the guide. It outlines how to research security issues, form coalitions, plan strategically, develop recommendations, advocate and engage directly with the security sector. It also contains an array of practical tools, including exercises to identify local security needs, sample letters to security officials, talking points for meetings with policymakers and media, and definitions of security jargon.'
also available online
                    
        
            A Women's Guide to Security Sector Reform
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Megan BASTICK & Tobie WHITMAN
        
                    
        
                            
'This report seeks to encourage and empower women to take part in shaping and transforming the security sector in their communities and countries. Even if they have not formally studied security, women often have essential knowledge of community security needs, and have an important contribution to make to security sector reform (SSR). This guide provides both information on the security sector and SSR, and tools for action. It draws on the rich and varied experience of women in civil society from across the world and shares examples of practical, and sometimes innovative, ways to influence reform from the grassroots. Input from leading female activists from Afghanistan, Liberia, Libya, Nepal, Serbia, and Uganda helped to shape the guide. It outlines how to research security issues, form coalitions, plan strategically, develop recommendations, advocate and engage directly with the security sector. It also contains an array of practical tools, including exercises to identify local security needs, sample letters to security officials, talking points for meetings with policymakers and media, and definitions of security jargon.'
also available online
        
                            
        
        
                     Iraq, Women's Empowerment, and Public Policy
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Sherifa D. ZUHUR
                    
        
            Iraq, Women's Empowerment, and Public Policy
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Sherifa D. ZUHUR
        
                    
        
                
                            
        
        
                     Gender and Human Security :  A View from the Baltic Sea Region
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Zaneta OZOLINA (ed.)
                    
        
            Gender and Human Security :  A View from the Baltic Sea Region
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Zaneta OZOLINA (ed.)
        
                    
        
                
                            
        
        
                     Gender Training for the Security Sectory : Lessons Identified and Practical Resources
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (CH)
        
                    
        
                            
In June 2012, thirty-six gender training experts from around the world gathered in Geneva to share and discuss global best practices in delivering gender training to defence, police and security-related audiences. This report seeks to document the wealth of practical information shared during the workshop by drawing out lessons identified as well as useful tips and pointers. The report also includes a sizeable collection of tried-and-tested gender training exercises as well as an extensive list of additional resources such as publications, short videos and other electronic training materials.
                    
        
            Gender Training for the Security Sectory : Lessons Identified and Practical Resources
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (CH)
        
                    
        
                            
In June 2012, thirty-six gender training experts from around the world gathered in Geneva to share and discuss global best practices in delivering gender training to defence, police and security-related audiences. This report seeks to document the wealth of practical information shared during the workshop by drawing out lessons identified as well as useful tips and pointers. The report also includes a sizeable collection of tried-and-tested gender training exercises as well as an extensive list of additional resources such as publications, short videos and other electronic training materials.
        
                            
        
        
                     A Women's Guide to Security Sector Reform
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Bastick, Megan
        
                    
        
                            
This report seeks to encourage and empower women to take part in shaping and transforming the security sector in their communities and countries. Even if they have not formally studied security, women often have essential knowledge of community security needs, and have an important contribution to make to security sector reform (SSR). This guide provides both information on the security sector and SSR, and tools for action. It draws on the rich and varied experience of women in civil society from across the world and shares examples of practical, and sometimes innovative, ways to influence reform from the grassroots. Input from leading female activists from Afghanistan, Liberia, Libya, Nepal, Serbia, and Uganda helped to shape the guide. It outlines how to research security issues, form coalitions, plan strategically, develop recommendations, advocate and engage directly with the security sector. It also contains an array of practical tools, including exercises to identify local security needs, sample letters to security officials, talking points for meetings with policymakers and media, and definitions of security jargon.
                    
        
            A Women's Guide to Security Sector Reform
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Bastick, Megan
        
                    
        
                            
This report seeks to encourage and empower women to take part in shaping and transforming the security sector in their communities and countries. Even if they have not formally studied security, women often have essential knowledge of community security needs, and have an important contribution to make to security sector reform (SSR). This guide provides both information on the security sector and SSR, and tools for action. It draws on the rich and varied experience of women in civil society from across the world and shares examples of practical, and sometimes innovative, ways to influence reform from the grassroots. Input from leading female activists from Afghanistan, Liberia, Libya, Nepal, Serbia, and Uganda helped to shape the guide. It outlines how to research security issues, form coalitions, plan strategically, develop recommendations, advocate and engage directly with the security sector. It also contains an array of practical tools, including exercises to identify local security needs, sample letters to security officials, talking points for meetings with policymakers and media, and definitions of security jargon.
        
                            
        
        
                    eBooks Selected from the NATO Multimedia Library Collections
 HBR's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership
        
        
        
            
        
                    
        
                            
What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace ? The authors have combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today - and how far we still have to go. This book will inspire you to : Better understand the path women must take to leadership; Learn the root causes of the barriers that exist for women in the workplace; Check your own gender biases and distinguish between confidence and competence in your colleagues;  Manage a more effective gender-diversity program;  Recognize the issues women face when speaking up about bias or harassment; Help women reenter the workforce after taking time off - and create opportunities for them to reach their ambitions.
                    
        
            HBR's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership
        
        
        
            
        
                    
        
                            
What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace ? The authors have combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today - and how far we still have to go. This book will inspire you to : Better understand the path women must take to leadership; Learn the root causes of the barriers that exist for women in the workplace; Check your own gender biases and distinguish between confidence and competence in your colleagues;  Manage a more effective gender-diversity program;  Recognize the issues women face when speaking up about bias or harassment; Help women reenter the workforce after taking time off - and create opportunities for them to reach their ambitions.
        
                            
        
        
        
                     A Women's Guide to Security Sector Reform
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Bastick, Megan
        
                    
        
                            
This report seeks to encourage and empower women to take part in shaping and transforming the security sector in their communities and countries. Even if they have not formally studied security, women often have essential knowledge of community security needs, and have an important contribution to make to security sector reform (SSR). This guide provides both information on the security sector and SSR, and tools for action. It draws on the rich and varied experience of women in civil society from across the world and shares examples of practical, and sometimes innovative, ways to influence reform from the grassroots. Input from leading female activists from Afghanistan, Liberia, Libya, Nepal, Serbia, and Uganda helped to shape the guide. It outlines how to research security issues, form coalitions, plan strategically, develop recommendations, advocate and engage directly with the security sector. It also contains an array of practical tools, including exercises to identify local security needs, sample letters to security officials, talking points for meetings with policymakers and media, and definitions of security jargon.
                    
        
            A Women's Guide to Security Sector Reform
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Bastick, Megan
        
                    
        
                            
This report seeks to encourage and empower women to take part in shaping and transforming the security sector in their communities and countries. Even if they have not formally studied security, women often have essential knowledge of community security needs, and have an important contribution to make to security sector reform (SSR). This guide provides both information on the security sector and SSR, and tools for action. It draws on the rich and varied experience of women in civil society from across the world and shares examples of practical, and sometimes innovative, ways to influence reform from the grassroots. Input from leading female activists from Afghanistan, Liberia, Libya, Nepal, Serbia, and Uganda helped to shape the guide. It outlines how to research security issues, form coalitions, plan strategically, develop recommendations, advocate and engage directly with the security sector. It also contains an array of practical tools, including exercises to identify local security needs, sample letters to security officials, talking points for meetings with policymakers and media, and definitions of security jargon.
        
                            
        
        
        
                     Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Caron E. Gentry (Editor); Laura J. Shepherd (Editor); Laura Sjoberg (Editor)
        
                    
        
                            
This handbook provides a comprehensive look at the study of gender and security in global politics.  The volume is based on the core argument that gender is conceptually necessary to thinking about central questions of security; analytically important for thinking about cause and effect in security; and politically important for considering possibilities of making the world better in the future. Contributions to the volume look at various aspects of studying gender and security through diverse lenses that engage diverse feminisms, with diverse policy concerns, and working with diverse theoretical contributions from scholars of security more broadly. It is grouped into four thematic sections:  Gendered approaches to security (including theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches); Gendered insecurities in global politics (including the ways insecurity in global politics is distributed and read on the basis of gender); Gendered practices of security (including how policy practice and theory work together, or do not); Gendered security institutions (across a wide variety of spaces and places in global politics).   This handbook will be of great interest to students of gender studies, security studies and IR in general.
                    
        
            Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Caron E. Gentry (Editor); Laura J. Shepherd (Editor); Laura Sjoberg (Editor)
        
                    
        
                            
This handbook provides a comprehensive look at the study of gender and security in global politics.  The volume is based on the core argument that gender is conceptually necessary to thinking about central questions of security; analytically important for thinking about cause and effect in security; and politically important for considering possibilities of making the world better in the future. Contributions to the volume look at various aspects of studying gender and security through diverse lenses that engage diverse feminisms, with diverse policy concerns, and working with diverse theoretical contributions from scholars of security more broadly. It is grouped into four thematic sections:  Gendered approaches to security (including theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches); Gendered insecurities in global politics (including the ways insecurity in global politics is distributed and read on the basis of gender); Gendered practices of security (including how policy practice and theory work together, or do not); Gendered security institutions (across a wide variety of spaces and places in global politics).   This handbook will be of great interest to students of gender studies, security studies and IR in general.
        
                            
        
        
        
                     Women, Peace and Security : The European Union in Action
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Council of Europe. General Secretariat (BE)
        
                    
        
                            
The ways in which women, men, girls and boys experience and respond to armed conflict, peacekeeping, peace building and reconstruction differ, as do their security concerns. While entire communities suffer the consequences of armed conflict, women and girls are particularly affected because of their status in society and their sex. Understanding these differences is essential to the successful planning and implementation of response strategies, be it with regard to crisis management operations, conflict resolution and mediation efforts or post-conflict reconstruction.
                    
        
            Women, Peace and Security : The European Union in Action
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Council of Europe. General Secretariat (BE)
        
                    
        
                            
The ways in which women, men, girls and boys experience and respond to armed conflict, peacekeeping, peace building and reconstruction differ, as do their security concerns. While entire communities suffer the consequences of armed conflict, women and girls are particularly affected because of their status in society and their sex. Understanding these differences is essential to the successful planning and implementation of response strategies, be it with regard to crisis management operations, conflict resolution and mediation efforts or post-conflict reconstruction.
        
                            
        
        
        
                     Gender Training for the Security Sectory : Lessons Identified and Practical Resources
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (CH)
        
                    
        
                            
In June 2012, thirty-six gender training experts from around the world gathered in Geneva to share and discuss global best practices in delivering gender training to defence, police and security-related audiences. This report seeks to document the wealth of practical information shared during the workshop by drawing out lessons identified as well as useful tips and pointers. The report also includes a sizeable collection of tried-and-tested gender training exercises as well as an extensive list of additional resources such as publications, short videos and other electronic training materials.
                    
        
            Gender Training for the Security Sectory : Lessons Identified and Practical Resources
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (CH)
        
                    
        
                            
In June 2012, thirty-six gender training experts from around the world gathered in Geneva to share and discuss global best practices in delivering gender training to defence, police and security-related audiences. This report seeks to document the wealth of practical information shared during the workshop by drawing out lessons identified as well as useful tips and pointers. The report also includes a sizeable collection of tried-and-tested gender training exercises as well as an extensive list of additional resources such as publications, short videos and other electronic training materials.
        
                            
        
        
        
                     The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            ionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji
        
                    
        
                            
The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to address a complex range of challenges, contexts, geographies, and issues that arise for women and men in the context of armed conflict. The Handbook addresses war and peace, humanitarian intervention, countering violence and extremism, the United Nations Women, Peace, and Security Agenda, sexual violence, criminal accountability, autonomous weapons, peacekeeping, refugee and internally displaced person (IDP) status, the political economy of war, the economics of conflict, as well as health and economic security. It begins with theoretical approaches to gender and conflict, drawing on the areas of international, peace and conflict, feminist, and masculinities studies. The Handbook explores how women and men’s pre-war societal, economic, and legal status relates to their conflict experiences, affecting the ways in which they are treated in the post-conflict transitional phase. In addition to examining these conflict and post-conflict experiences, the Handbook addresses the differing roles of multiple national and international actors, as well as the UN led Women, Peace, and Security Agenda. Contributions survey the regulatory framework and gendered dimensions of international humanitarian and international human rights law in situations of conflict and occupation as well as addressing, and critiquing, the gendered nature and content of international criminal law. The Handbook also includes grounded country case studies exploring different gendered experiences of conflict in various regions. As a whole, this Handbook seeks to critically examine the contemporary gender-based challenges that emerge in conflict and post-conflicts contexts.
                    
        
            The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            ionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji
        
                    
        
                            
The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to address a complex range of challenges, contexts, geographies, and issues that arise for women and men in the context of armed conflict. The Handbook addresses war and peace, humanitarian intervention, countering violence and extremism, the United Nations Women, Peace, and Security Agenda, sexual violence, criminal accountability, autonomous weapons, peacekeeping, refugee and internally displaced person (IDP) status, the political economy of war, the economics of conflict, as well as health and economic security. It begins with theoretical approaches to gender and conflict, drawing on the areas of international, peace and conflict, feminist, and masculinities studies. The Handbook explores how women and men’s pre-war societal, economic, and legal status relates to their conflict experiences, affecting the ways in which they are treated in the post-conflict transitional phase. In addition to examining these conflict and post-conflict experiences, the Handbook addresses the differing roles of multiple national and international actors, as well as the UN led Women, Peace, and Security Agenda. Contributions survey the regulatory framework and gendered dimensions of international humanitarian and international human rights law in situations of conflict and occupation as well as addressing, and critiquing, the gendered nature and content of international criminal law. The Handbook also includes grounded country case studies exploring different gendered experiences of conflict in various regions. As a whole, this Handbook seeks to critically examine the contemporary gender-based challenges that emerge in conflict and post-conflicts contexts.
        
                            
        
        
        
                     Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping : Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Karim, Sabrina
        
                    
        
                            
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. The authors 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. They 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.
                    
        
            Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping : Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Karim, Sabrina
        
                    
        
                            
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. The authors 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. They 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.
        
                            
        
        
        
                     Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Laura Sjoberg (Editor); Laura J. Shepherd (Editor); Caron E. Gentry (Editor)
        
                    
        
                            
This handbook provides a comprehensive look at the study of gender and security in global politics.  The volume is based on the core argument that gender is conceptually necessary to thinking about core questions of security; analytically important for thinking about cause and effect in security; and politically important for considering possibilities of making the world better in the future. Contributions to the volume look at various aspects of studying gender and security through diverse lenses that engage diverse feminisms, with diverse policy concerns, and working with diverse theoretical contributions from scholars of security more broadly. It is grouped into four thematic sections:  Gendered approaches to security (including theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches); Gendered insecurities in global politics (including the ways insecurity in global politics is distributed and read on the basis of gender); Gendered practices of security (including how policy practice and theory work together, or do not); Gendered security institutions (across a wide variety of spaces and places in global politics).   This handbook will be of great interest to students of gender studies, security studies and IR in general.
                    
        
            Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Laura Sjoberg (Editor); Laura J. Shepherd (Editor); Caron E. Gentry (Editor)
        
                    
        
                            
This handbook provides a comprehensive look at the study of gender and security in global politics.  The volume is based on the core argument that gender is conceptually necessary to thinking about core questions of security; analytically important for thinking about cause and effect in security; and politically important for considering possibilities of making the world better in the future. Contributions to the volume look at various aspects of studying gender and security through diverse lenses that engage diverse feminisms, with diverse policy concerns, and working with diverse theoretical contributions from scholars of security more broadly. It is grouped into four thematic sections:  Gendered approaches to security (including theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches); Gendered insecurities in global politics (including the ways insecurity in global politics is distributed and read on the basis of gender); Gendered practices of security (including how policy practice and theory work together, or do not); Gendered security institutions (across a wide variety of spaces and places in global politics).   This handbook will be of great interest to students of gender studies, security studies and IR in general.
        
                            
        
        
        
                     NATO Partnerships for Women, Peace, and Security
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Lisa A. Aronsson
        
                    
        
                            
The author outlines the achievements and the implementation challenges NATO faces, and offers three sets of recommendations for overcoming institutional hurdles, leveraging non-NATO members, and reviving NATO's sense of purpose on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda.
                    
        
            NATO Partnerships for Women, Peace, and Security
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Lisa A. Aronsson
        
                    
        
                            
The author outlines the achievements and the implementation challenges NATO faces, and offers three sets of recommendations for overcoming institutional hurdles, leveraging non-NATO members, and reviving NATO's sense of purpose on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda.
        
                            
        
        
        
                     Gender and War : International and Transitional Justice Perspectives
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Mouthaan, Solange, ed.
        
                    
        
                            
This book explores and challenges common assumptions about gender, conflict, and post-conflict situations. It critically examines the gendered aspects of international and transitional justice processes by subverting traditional understandings of how wars are waged, the power dynamics involved, and the experiences of victims. The book also highlights the gendered stereotypes that underpin the (mis)perceptions about gender and war in order to reveal the multi-dimensional nature of modern conflicts and their aftermaths. Featuring contributions from academics in law, criminology, international relations, politics and psychology, as well as legal practitioners in the field, this book offers a unique and multi-disciplinary insight into contemporary understandings of conflict and explores the potential for international and transitional justice processes to evolve in order to better acknowledge diverse and gendered experiences of modern conflicts.
                    
        
            Gender and War : International and Transitional Justice Perspectives
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Mouthaan, Solange, ed.
        
                    
        
                            
This book explores and challenges common assumptions about gender, conflict, and post-conflict situations. It critically examines the gendered aspects of international and transitional justice processes by subverting traditional understandings of how wars are waged, the power dynamics involved, and the experiences of victims. The book also highlights the gendered stereotypes that underpin the (mis)perceptions about gender and war in order to reveal the multi-dimensional nature of modern conflicts and their aftermaths. Featuring contributions from academics in law, criminology, international relations, politics and psychology, as well as legal practitioners in the field, this book offers a unique and multi-disciplinary insight into contemporary understandings of conflict and explores the potential for international and transitional justice processes to evolve in order to better acknowledge diverse and gendered experiences of modern conflicts.
        
                            
        
        
        
                     Gender Mainstreaming in ESDP Missions
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Valenius, Johanna
        
                    
        
                            
In 2000 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1325, 'Women, Peace and Security', which calls for 'gender mainstreaming'. This means taking account of gender factors in the planning and implementation of crisis management policies and missions, and gender balancing in civilian and military operations. International organisations, governments and national militaries have become increasingly aware of the unintended gendered side-effects of peacekeeping operations, including incidents of prostitution, trafficking in women and the exploitation of local women and men in post-conflict societies. Systematic sexualised violence against women during conflicts, and the effects of this on post-war reconstruction, further highlights the need for gender-sensitive policies. Within the EU, gender mainstreaming in crisis management operations became topical in 2005 when the European Council welcomed a paper by the General Secretariat on Implementation of UNSCR 1325 in the context of ESDP. This paper seeks to clarify and explore the issue of gender mainstreaming. In the first part it addresses what gender mainstreaming is and why it should be implemented in ESDP missions. The second part presents the findings of a case study conducted by researchers at the EU Institute for Security Studies on the ESDP missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
                    
        
            Gender Mainstreaming in ESDP Missions
        
                    
                by
            
        
        
            Valenius, Johanna
        
                    
        
                            
In 2000 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1325, 'Women, Peace and Security', which calls for 'gender mainstreaming'. This means taking account of gender factors in the planning and implementation of crisis management policies and missions, and gender balancing in civilian and military operations. International organisations, governments and national militaries have become increasingly aware of the unintended gendered side-effects of peacekeeping operations, including incidents of prostitution, trafficking in women and the exploitation of local women and men in post-conflict societies. Systematic sexualised violence against women during conflicts, and the effects of this on post-war reconstruction, further highlights the need for gender-sensitive policies. Within the EU, gender mainstreaming in crisis management operations became topical in 2005 when the European Council welcomed a paper by the General Secretariat on Implementation of UNSCR 1325 in the context of ESDP. This paper seeks to clarify and explore the issue of gender mainstreaming. In the first part it addresses what gender mainstreaming is and why it should be implemented in ESDP missions. The second part presents the findings of a case study conducted by researchers at the EU Institute for Security Studies on the ESDP missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
        
                            
        
        
        
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