Gender equality and United Nations peace operations in Timor Leste /
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| Author / Creator: | Olsson, Louise, 1973- |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Pub., 2009. |
| Description: | xvi, 208 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International peacekeeping ; v. 14 International peacekeeping (Hingham, Mass.) ; v. 14. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8510419 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 208 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004175495 9004175490 |