Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States de Sabrina Karim

Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States: Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations

Autor Sabrina Karim, Kyle Beardsley

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 oct 2019

Nivel de studiu: Licență avansată, masterat și referință profesională pentru specialiști în relații internaționale. Remarcăm o abordare riguroasă și bazată pe date a modului în care egalitatea de gen este integrată în misiunile de menținere a păcii, la aproape două decenii de la adoptarea Rezoluției 1325 a Consiliului de Securitate al ONU. Autorii, Sabrina Karim și Kyle Beardsley, depășesc analiza teoretică, propunând un cadru bazat pe date transnaționale privind participarea personalului și incidentele de exploatare și abuz sexual (SEAHV). Ne-a atras atenția modul în care studiul de caz asupra Misiunii ONU din Liberia fundamentează argumentul central: dezechilibrele de putere persistente limitează participarea femeilor prin discriminare și segregare în „spații sigure”.

Din punct de vedere al structurii narative, volumul evaluează critic progresele agendei „Femeile, Pacea și Securitatea”, subliniind că simpla prezență numerică a femeilor nu garantează succesul dacă nu este însoțită de o cultură a egalității de șanse. Merită menționat că lucrarea extinde cadrul propus de Gender Equality in UN Peacekeeping prin utilizarea unor seturi de date noi și mai specifice privind violența și hărțuirea în interiorul unităților de menținere a păcii. Față de abordările teoretice din Women and International Peacekeeping, volumul de față oferă o perspectivă empirică mai robustă asupra modului în care operațiunile pot deveni vehicule pentru norme de gen globale. Stilul este academic, dens în informații statistice, fiind o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea politicii externe feministe contemporane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190093532
ISBN-10: 0190093536
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations

Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este indispensabilă pentru cercetătorii care doresc să înțeleagă dincolo de statistici de ce egalitatea de gen rămâne un obiectiv greu de atins în zonele post-conflict. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra mecanismelor de putere din interiorul ONU și învață cum „egalitatea de șanse” poate transforma misiunile de pace din simple structuri militare în modele de echitate socială.

Despre autor

Sabrina Karim este profesor asistent la Universitatea Cornell, specializată în studiul violenței politice și al proceselor de pace, cu un accent deosebit pe reforma sectorului de securitate în Africa de Vest. Kyle Beardsley este profesor de științe politice la Universitatea Duke, recunoscut pentru cercetările sale asupra medierii conflictelor și intervențiilor internaționale. Împreună, cei doi au dezvoltat o metodologie bazată pe date empirice care completează lucrările anterioare ale Sabrinei Karim, precum Positioning Women in Conflict Studies, oferind o bază factuală solidă pentru teoriile despre importanța genului în politica mondială.

Descriere

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.

Recenzii

Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping has laid valuable grounds for showing that peacekeeping organizations are profoundly gender biased a highly interesting contribution to our understanding of the global power structures that are embodied in peacekeeping.
Equal opportunity peacekeeping presents a systematic and thorough overview of relevant feminist scholarship, with the aim to generate 'theoretical expectations' especially regarding practices of 'female ratio balancing', where the numbers of female peacekeepers is increased.
Intended for specialists and advanced students, this book is highly recommended for university libraries and specialized collections on international affairs and security studies. Highly recommended." -CHOICE
Very few studies have attempted to systematically explore the implementation of policies linking gender equality to peace processes and peace operations. Beardsley and Karim's book is a path-breaking study of gender equality in peacekeeping missions. Triangulating data from UN missions-both military and police-with very rich material based on interviews, field experiments and surveys from UNMIL in Liberia, this trailblazing book becomes an essential reading for all interested in gender, security and peacekeeping missions in the 21st century." -Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
Karim and Beardsley combine methodological rigor with personal narratives from peacekeepers and civilians, providing a rich analysis of how gender inequality affects peacekeeping. This is essential reading for anyone with an interest in gender and IR, and for everyone working with peacekeeping." -Lisa Hultman, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
This book offers a different story of peacekeeping, shedding an innovative light on gender reforms and women's equal opportunities by combining original data with space for local voices. In addition, it emphasizes the need for a knowledge-based approach to successfully addressing sexual exploitation and abuse; a crime and a key challenge to effective peace operations. The book is highly recommended to all those working to strengthen peace operations and to students specializing in international politics.
Karim (Cornell) and Beardsley (Duke) have given us a theoretically informed, data-driven analysis of both gender (in)equality in peacekeeping units and the sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment, and violence (SEAHV) that often accompany their deployments. Intended for specialists and advanced students, this book is highly recommended for university libraries and specialized collections on international affairs and security studies."

Notă biografică

Sabrina Karim is an Assistant Professor in Government at Cornell University. Between 2016-2017, she was a Dartmouth Dickey Center Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security. Her research interests include gender reforms in post-conflict security forces, the effect of security sector reforms on peace and order, the dynamics of peacekeeping missions, and the relationship between gender equality and violence.Kyle Beardsley is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He is author of The Mediation Dilemma. His research interests include third-party involvement in peace processes, the nature of intrastate rebellion, gender reforms in post-conflict security forces, and nuclear weapons.