Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security
Thinking Gender in Transnational Times Series Editors: Clare Hemmings, Kimberley Hutchings, Hakan Seckinelgin and Sadie Wearing Titles include: Gina Heathcote and Dianne Otto (editors) RETHINKING PEACEKEEPING, GENDER EQUALITY AND COLLECTIVE SECURITY Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips and Kalpana Wilson (editors) GENDER, AGENCY AND COERCION Thinking Gender in Transnational Times Series Standing Order ISBN 978 0 230 35843 0 hardback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England
Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security Edited by Gina Heathcote SOAS, University of London, UK and Dianne Otto University of Melbourne, Australia
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Contents List of Figures Foreword by Madeleine Rees Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms vii viii x xi xvii Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security: An Introduction 1 Dianne Otto and Gina Heathcote Part I Shame 1 The Grip of Sexual Violence: Reading UN Security Council Resolutions on Human Security 23 Karen Engle 2 Participation, Gender and Security 48 Gina Heathcote 3 Shaming the State: Sexual Offences by UN Military Peacekeepers and the Rhetoric of Zero Tolerance 70 Róisín Burke Part II Hope 4 The Road to (and from) Recovery : A Multidisciplinary Feminist Approach to Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding 99 Laura J. Shepherd 5 Thinking Globally and Acting Locally: Linking Women, Peace and Security in the Pacific 118 Sharon Bhagwan Rolls 6 Gender and Transnational Police Reform: Lessons from the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands 131 Stephanie Cousins v
vi Contents Part III Danger 7 Beyond Stories of Victory and Danger: Resisting Feminism s Amenability to Serving Security Council Politics 157 Dianne Otto 8 Security Council Resolution 1325: A Tool for Conflict Prevention? 173 Felicity Ruby 9 Increasing Women s Presence in Peacekeeping Operations: The Rationales and Realities of Gender Balance 185 Olivera Simić Part IV Silences 10 Systematic Silencing: Addressing Sexual Violence against Men and Boys in Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath 203 Chloé Lewis 11 Security Council Resolution 1325: Age and Gender in Conflict and the Future of Feminist Activism 224 Cara Gleeson, Sharna de Lacy, May Maloney and Fiona McAlpine 12 The Political Economy of Gender in UN Peacekeeping 243 Jacqui True Part V Conclusions 13 Concluding Remarks: Establishing Common Ground between Feminism and the Military 265 Judith Gardam and Dale Stephens Bibliography 280 Index 311