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Sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping and aid : critiquing the past, plotting the future / edited by Jasmine-Kim Westendorf and Elliot Dolan-Evans.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disaster victims--Abuse of.
- Disaster victims.
- Peacekeeping forces--Sexual behavior.
- Peacekeeping forces.
- Sex crimes--Developing countries.
- Sex crimes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book highlights the ongoing challenge of preventing and responding to abuse in peacekeeping and aid work, plus the structural issues of power, coloniality and racism, while charting a path for future action.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peacekeeping and Aid: Critiquing the Past, Plotting the Future
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Two Decades of Dealing with Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peacekeeping and Aid
- Dealing with 'disgrace'
- Overview of the book
- References
- Part I Where We've Been:
- 1 Reflections on 20-Plus Years of Protection from SEA Work
- Introduction
- My experience as a whistle-blower
- Existing systems do not support survivors or whistle-blowers
- Language obscures the problem
- The insufficiency of technocratic responses
- Conclusion
- 2 United Nations Police as a Double-Edged Sword for SEA Accountability
- UNPOL in the rule of law and accountability
- Mapping SEA accountability and UNPOL
- How UNPOL is doing in SEA accountability
- 3 Victims' Rights and Remedial Action
- Victims' rights and the UN's SEA integrity system
- Remedial action
- Enduring challenges for victims
- 4 Sexual Violence against Peacekeepers and Aid Workers
- Patriarchal power dynamics
- Organizational cultures that promote and condone sexual abuse
- Impunity
- Part II How It's Going:
- 5 Missing the Mark in PSEA
- Putting abuse on the agenda
- Opportunity for action
- A need for accountability
- 6 The Imperative of Prioritizing Victims' Rights
- The rights and dignity of victims at the forefront
- Global advocacy
- Clarifying the victim-centred/victims' rights approach
- Implementation on the ground: the SVROs
- References.
- 6A United Nations Victims' Rights Statement
- YOUR RIGHTS
- The United Nations' guiding principles
- Your rights as a victim of sexual exploitation or abuse
- 7 Accountability Advocates
- The politics of representation
- Discursive representation of victims
- Victim-centred practices: the OVRA
- 8 Masculinities and Institutional Blind Spots
- Boys will be boys: a problem of masculinity?
- Masculinity: a limiting analysis
- At the intersections of masculinity and SEA
- 9 Power, Consent and Peacekeeping Economies
- When is consent meaningful and when is it 'allowed'?
- How the ZTP represents and genders power
- 10 Gender, Race, Sexuality and PSEA
- Who is an aid worker?
- Whose security?
- 'Stranger danger'
- 11 'We Don't Have a Word for That'
- Linguistic diversity and linguistic power
- Multilingualism in humanitarian assistance
- Language as power
- Challenges in understanding and translating terminology and concepts
- Defining core PSEA concepts
- Translating core PSEA concepts
- Understanding contextual drivers
- Perceptions of sex in exchange for material goods
- Translating sex, gender, power and violence
- Barriers to information and support
- Gendered access barriers
- Dissemination of PSEA policies
- Access to reporting mechanisms
- 12 From 'Cultural Sensitivity' to 'Structural Sensitivity'
- Epistemology and ontology
- Cultural sensitivity
- Structural sensitivity in safeguarding
- Part III Looking Forward:
- 13 Agency and Affect in PSEA
- Materiality of experiences
- Emotions and affect
- 14 Empowered Aid
- The Empowered Aid approach to contextual safeguarding
- Shifting power
- Harnessing community-based knowledge
- Breaking down barriers to reporting abuse
- 15 Rethinking PSEA
- Challenges: the missing pieces of prevention
- Opportunities: rethinking SEA
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 6A
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-3844-7
- 1-5292-3842-0
- 1-5292-3843-9
- OCLC:
- 1445952044
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