International Peacekeeping: The Yearbook of International Peace Operations

Volume 14: Gender Equality and United Nations Peace Operations in Timor Leste
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17549-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: International Peacekeeping

This book expands the inquiry of United Nations peace operations to incorporate their effects on the equality of the host state. To achieve this, a mainstream-based analytical framework, additionally informed by suggestions from feminist research, is formulated and applied to the case of Timor-Leste. The study makes two contributions. Firstly, it enhances our ability to trace changes in the power balance between men and women by developing the concept of gender power-relations, especially introducing security equality (understood as the distribution of protection between men and women). Secondly, when the concept of gender power-relations had been developed to enable a more fine-grained analysis, the project proceeds to systematically explore effects of peace operations on these power-relations in the host state. The results shows the importance of considering the differences in situation of men and women in order both to avoid doing harm and to obtain a more equal peace.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in United Nations Peace Operations, their broader effects on the´host society's gender-power relations, and the conflict resolution processes in Timor-Leste.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olsson, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Vereinte Nationen, UN Organisationen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Louise Olsson, Ph.D. (2007) in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University is Assistant Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research and project leader at the Folke Bernadotte Academy in Sweden. She has co-edited Women and International Peacekeeping (2001) and a special issue of Security Dialogue on Gender and Security (2005) as well as published in International Peacekeeping.