In post-conflict settings, women's full and effective participation is fundam...

In post-conflict settings, women's full and effective participation is fundamental to efforts to rebuild the justice sector and to security sector reform. In Solomon Islands for example, Australia supported, through the Participating Police Force, the post-conflict recruitment and retention of female officers to the local police force. The early involvement of women, and the integration of a gender-perspective, led directly to the establishmen to critical domestic violence and sexual abuse services. More fundamentally, it also underwrote the broader processes of community rebuilding.