Women Targeted or Affected by Armed Conflict: What Role for Military Peacekeepers?

The conference reviewed current peacekeeping practice in the prevention of widespread and systematic sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict contexts, with a view to:

i. Identifying existing efforts to prevent the targeting of women and children for sexual violence within current peacekeeping approaches to civilian protection;

ii. Building a policy consensus on sexual violence as a security issue backed by mandates, means, training and incentives for effective response.