Gender, Conflict, And Peacekeeping

by Mazurana, Dyan; Raven-Roberts, Angela; Parpart, Jane; Baines, Erin K.; Bedont, Barbara; Enloe, Cynthia; Fitzsimmons, Tracy; Hudson, Heidi; Jacobson, Ruth; Lautze, Sue; Luciak, Ilja A.; Mackay, Angela; Olmos, Cecilia; Olsson, Louise; Oosterveld, Valerie; V

• ISBN13: 9780742536326
• ISBN10: 0742536327
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-17
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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 po

Table of Contents

Acronyms	vii
Introduction: Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping	1	(26)
Dyan Mazurana, Angela Raven-Roberts, Jane Parpart, with Sue Lautze
I: Gender, Complex Political Emergencies, and International Intervention	27	(38)
1 Gender and the Causes and Consequences of Armed Conflict	29	(14)
Dyan Mazurana
2 Gender Mainstreaming in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Talking the Talk, Tripping over the Walk	43	(24)
Angela Raven-Roberts
II: Gender, Peacekeeping, and International Humanitarian, Criminal, and Human Rights Law	65	(44)
3 Prosecution of Gender-Based Crimes in International Law	67	(16)
Valerie Oosterveld
4 The Renewed Popularity of the Rule of Law: Implications for Women, Impunity, and Peacekeeping	83	(28)
Barbara Bedont
III: Inside Peacekeeping Operations	109	(74)
5 Peacekeeping Trends and Their Gender Implications for Regional Peacekeeping Forces in Africa: Progress and Challenges	111	(23)
Heidi Hudson
6 Gender, War, and Peace in Mozambique and Angola: Advances and Absences	134	(16)
Ruth Jacobson
7 Peacekeeping, Alphabet Soup, and Violence against Women in the Balkans	150	(18)
Martina Vandenberg
8 The Namibian Peace Operation in a Gender Context	168	(17)
Louise Olsson
IV: Peacekeeping Operations, International Intervention, and Gender-Just Peacemaking and Peace Building	183	(102)
9 The Postconflict Postscript: Gender and Policing in Peace Operations	185	(17)
Tracy Fitzsimmons
10 Gender Equality and the Guatemalan Peace Accords: Critical Reflections	202	(18)
Ilja A. Luciak and Cecilia Olmos
11 Les femmes aux mille bras: Building Peace in Rwanda	220	(22)
Erin K. Bathes
12 State Making, Peacemaking, and the Inscription of Gendered Politics into Peace: Lessons from Angola	242	(23)
J. Zoë Wilson
13 Mainstreaming Gender in United Nations Peacekeeping Training: Examples from East Timor, Ethiopia, and Eritrea	265	(15)
Angela Mackay
14 What if Patriarchy Is "the Big Picture"? An Afterword	280	(5)
Cynthia Enloe
Appendix	285	(4)
Index	289	(10)
About the Contributors	299