Introduction: The Study of Gender, Diplomacy and Negotiation

Aggestam, Karin; Towns, Ann

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“…A seat at the table will be of little consequence if women's perspective and opinions are dismissed as less significant. Compared to other critical priorities such as military politics and economic concerns, it demonstrated that merely counting the increasing number of women doesn't mean that women count in foreign relations [32] , [39] .…”

Section: A Gender-transformative Approach To Seamentioning

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“…The increasing SEA offences make it crucial to include rigorous training on gender equality values and to include a basic test on gender equality mandatory before joining humanitarian missions. Humanitarian diplomacy can play a pivotal role to train the humanitarian workforce on best practices to reduce SEA [30] – [32] .…”

Section: Humanitarian Diplomacymentioning

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“…Given the arguments and themes outlined above clearly, the “glass ceiling” exists for women progressing to senior positions, particularly in diplomacy and peacemaking, impacting the humanitarian aid operations, including issues relevant to SEA. There is a need for explicit inclusion of “gender equality provisions” [32] , [40] , [41] . To tackle SEA, one cannot neglect the problem-solving pursuit of incremental change from “inside” the world of global governance of humanitarian aid, as it is any more than they can forsake the critical-theoretical push for historical gender-transformative change.…”

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“…Gender-aware policies have been reduced to mere administrative routines and checklists. Humanitarian aid missions with the workforce from nations with better records of gender equality, i.e., better records on educated women and their labour force participation, tend to have fewer counts of SEA allegations [32] , [42] – [44] .…”

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Predators among protectors: overcoming power abuse during humanitarian crisis through effective humanitarian diplomacy and a gender-transformative approach

2021

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Sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) is one of the most depraved crimes against humanity. When carried out by peacekeepers and humanitarian aid workers, it depicts a catastrophic failure of protection bringing harm to the very people the United Nations and international organizations vow to protect. This paper has highlighted the various allegations and incidents of SEA repeatedly happening in conflict-affected countries. Allegations of SEA have since surfaced related to operations in Bosnia, Cambodia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kosovo, Cote d'Ivoire, Haiti, Sudan, Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The symptoms of abuse survivors generally resemble those of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and SEA has significant health consequences and poses a severe threat to public health advancement. Based on the literature review, we propose that international and humanitarian organizations must ensure that these offences do not happen in the future by taking appropriate measures. These organizations must prioritize rigorous training on gender equality and values and include a basic mandatory test on gender equality before joining humanitarian missions. Since humanitarian diplomacy encompasses actions carried out by the humanitarian organizations to acquire space from military and political authorities within to function with integrity, we emphasize that strengthening humanitarian diplomacy can play a pivotal role to train the humanitarian workforce on best practices to reduce SEA. Besides, we further propose that women should be allowed to lead from the front; otherwise, true gender equality and issues relevant to gender, including SEA, will be challenging to attain.

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Predators among protectors: overcoming power abuse during humanitarian crisis through effective humanitarian diplomacy and a gender-transformative approach

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“…Tickner puts her finger on the problem: "Citation of feminist work by non-feminists remains limited" (Tickner 2016, 6; also Sjoberg 2010). Others in the field have noted the determined gender blindness in the study of diplomacy and international relations, noting its poor track record compared with diplomatic history (Aggestam and Towns 2018), and it is true that the rise of new diplomatic history has led to a greater gender awareness in analyses of twentieth-century diplomacy, as is evident in the work of such historians as Frank Costigliola, Helen McCarthy, Kenneth Weisbrode, Molly Wood and Nevra Biltekin.…”

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Off the record: Margaret van Kleffens and the gendered history of Dutch World War II diplomacy

Erlandsson

2018

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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This article makes the case for recovering women's roles from the forgotten corners of diplomatic history, and for considering the consequences of the gap between feminist and non-feminist research. It shows how ignorance of the gendered nature of diplomatic norms and practices impacts our understanding of diplomatic history, and how specific biographies are hampered by gender blindness in particular. Using the history of Margaret van Kleffens and Dutch World War II diplomacy as an example, the article demonstrates how historians' continued neglect of the role of women and gender norms has influenced representations of twentieth-century diplomacy. To dismiss the history of gender and of women as by definition irrelevant to the actions of states and of male statespersons is not simply part of a selfappointed focus on the political at the expense of the personal; rather, it omits much of the political history too, reproducing stereotypes and resulting in a skewed understanding of diplomatic history and foreign policy decisions. The article argues that both historians and feminist scholars need to historicize gender in order to recognize women's roles in diplomacy, and so gain a better understanding of the history of international politics as a whole.

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Work and Family Balance in Top Diplomacy: The Case of the Czech Republic

2022

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While female representation in the top diplomatic circles was almost nonexistent during the Czechoslovak era, the number of female diplomats in the Czech Republic has steadily increased since the fall of the state-socialist regime. Women are currently solidly represented in the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), but very few (14%) reach highest diplomatic positions. This study examines the main challenges that influence the careers of top diplomats using quantitative and qualitative data, including official statistics and documents of the Czech MFA and interviews with top diplomats and officials. The results indicate that work-family conflicts are the main challenge for all diplomats. However, women are apparently affected more disproportionately because of the existing “double burden” and a specific “concept of motherhood” vested in a deeply essentialist understanding of gender roles. These barriers have origins at the personal, institutional, and state levels that are strongly interrelated and historically and politically path dependent.

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Introduction: The Study of Gender, Diplomacy and Negotiation

Cited by 22 publications

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Predators among protectors: overcoming power abuse during humanitarian crisis through effective humanitarian diplomacy and a gender-transformative approach

Predators among protectors: overcoming power abuse during humanitarian crisis through effective humanitarian diplomacy and a gender-transformative approach

Off the record: Margaret van Kleffens and the gendered history of Dutch World War II diplomacy

Work and Family Balance in Top Diplomacy: The Case of the Czech Republic

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