Countering ‘Malestreaming’: Integrating the Gender, Peace and Security Agenda in Peace Operations in Africa

15 In the temperate language of the UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the operations of NDS Special Forces, like those of the Khost Protection Force, “appear to be coordinated

In particular, we study how laws and courts are used as parts of an active strategy to improve the lives of poor and

The DPKO team’s advocacy of the development of gender guidelines for military peacekeepers was in other words a part of a much wider effort by various actors among member states,

From the international to the local: A qualitative study on how the Women, Peace and Security agenda is adopted in Bosnia and Herzegovina and what norm transformation can mean

However, the new reality is one of a global network of peace and security actors, and African Union (AU) missions will be deployed alongside various sub-regional, UN and EU

Based on this, it urged member states to increase the participation of women at all levels of decision-making in these areas, including UN peace operations; to incorporate

Although there is only one officer working on gender full-time, the gender unit has implemented several activities in the course of 2013, including gender training for troops,

Given the above-noted correlation between gender equality and human development, investments in gender equality will have a clear effect on achieving the Sustainable