Gender equality and United Nations peace operations in Timor Leste / by Louise Olsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsson, Louise, 1973-

Series:

International peacekeeping (Hingham, Mass.) ; v. 14.

International peacekeeping ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Peacekeeping forces--Timor-Leste.

United Nations.

Women and peace.

Peace-building--Timor-Leste.

Peace-building.

Timor-Leste--Politics and government.

Timor-Leste.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / L. Olsson

Chapter One. Introduction / L. Olsson

Chapter Two. Creating A Framework / L. Olsson

Chapter Three. Prologue / L. Olsson

Chapter Four. Context Of Conflict: Timor-Leste 1975-1999 / L. Olsson

Chapter Five. Peace Operations Intervene 1999-2006 / L. Olsson

Chapter Six. The Framework At Work / L. Olsson

Chapter Seven. The Contributions / L. Olsson

List Of Interviews / L. Olsson

Bibliography / L. Olsson

Index / L. Olsson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-40115-7

9786612401152

90-474-2893-5

OCLC:

570398197