UN Peacekeeping Economies and Local Sex Industries: Connections and Implications

“Peacekeeping economies” have not been subject to much analysis of either their economic or socio-cultural and political impacts. A paper just published by MICROCON, entitled, 'UN Peacekeeping Economies and Local Sex Industries: Connections an... uses a gendered lens to explore some ramifications and lasting implications of peacekeeping economies. It looks at examples from four post-conflict countries with past or ongoing United Nations peacekeeping missions: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Liberia, and Haiti. The paper is particularly concerned with the interplay between the peacekeeping economy and the sex industry.