Mainstreaming a Gender Perspectives in Multidimensional Peace Operations

Saturday, July 1, 2000
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United Nations Department for Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)

Peacekeeping today has evolved and expanded from the peacekeeping of the first forty years of the United Nations. While it once emphasized monitoring and observing by military personnel, peacekeeping today can include many components, among them military, civilian police, civil affairs, elections, refugee return, humanitarian relief, demining, nation-building and human rights. Each component involves the participation of women and each has crucial consequences for women and men of the host country. Four of the five case studies supporting this analysis have looked at multidimensional missions: Namibia, Cambodia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and El Salvador. The fifth studied a civilian mission that observed implementation of a national peace accord and monitored South Africa's first multi-racial elections.

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