Format:
1 online resource (226 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047428930
Series Statement:
International Peacekeeping Ser. v.14
Content:
This book expands the inquiry of United Nations peace operations to incorporate their effects on the equality of the host state. Thereby, the study enhances our ability to trace changes in the power balance between men and women and systematically explores the effects on the power-relation in Timor-Leste 1999-2006.
Content:
CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- PART I SETTING THE STAGE -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 What we need to know -- 1.2 Why Timor-Leste? -- 1.3 Overview of study -- 2. Creating a Framework -- 2.1 Positioning the basic ideas -- 2.2 Understanding gender power-relations -- Gender power-relations -- Dimensions of gender power-relations -- 2.3 What causes change in gender power-relations? -- The context of armed confl ict -- A peace operation intervenes -- 2.4 Conclusions -- PART II INTO THE FIELD IN TIMOR-LESTE -- 3. Prologue -- 3.1 Focus of description -- Sources and information -- 3.2 Overview of time-period and operations -- 4. Context of confl ict: Timor-Leste 1975-1999 -- 4.1 Timorese parties and gender power-relations -- 4.2 Confl ict and gender power-relations -- 4.3 The Timor-Leste confl ict and the UN -- 5. Peace operations intervene 1999-2006 -- 5.1 The mandate and structure of UN operations -- Security versus politics? UNTAET peacekeeping and peacebuilding -- 5.2 UN operation policy and Timorese security -- Establishing security through military means -- Handling the old and new military of Timor-Leste -- Creating internal security -- Creating insecurity?-The behavior of UN peace-operation personnel -- 5.3 UN operation policy and Timorese politics -- Administrating a state -- Organizing democratic elections -- Building government -- PART III PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER -- 6. The framework at work -- 6.1 Advancing gender power-relations -- Political Equality -- Security Equality -- Conclusions -- 6.2 How peace operations affect gender power-relations -- Awareness in implementation -- Handling local military -- Local cooperation -- Personnel behavior -- Gender-balanced composition -- Operation leadership -- Conclusions -- 6.3 Are these effects unique for Timor-Leste? -- 7. The contributions.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004175495
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004175495
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=468306
