Policy and Possibilities of Humanitarian Development: Displaced Women and Peace-building Features of the UNHCR

Refugees and Recruitment: Understanding Violations Against Children in Armed Conflict With Novel Data

“…For example, given the link between displacement and child recruitment, ongoing policy initiatives within displaced settings may offer opportunities to protect children from the dynamics of recruitment. Recent research argues that gender-based development policies targeting displaced women offer opportunities to disrupt supply-side dynamics of child recruitment into conflict, since empowering displaced women through economic and social initiatives increases household income and thus decreases children's motivations for joining armed groups in order to earn money for their displaced families (Atkinson, 2018). Future research should examine these and other opportunities for policy efforts to mitigate conflict dynamics within environments of displacement, with particular attention afforded to children acting as agents within these environments (Maclure & Denov, 2006).…”

Displacement, Gender-Based Development, and Grave Violations Against Children in Armed Conflict: The Case of Iraq

“…Additionally, the outcomes achieved through the UNDP's livelihoods efforts in Iraq represent the possibilities for displaced women to disrupt conflict dynamics when empowered through any institutional development policy, whether implemented by the United Nations or by other organizations. Ultimately, the results presented in this article reflect the interaction of genderbased development policies and displacement dynamics, an interaction that offers opportunities for peacebuilding initiatives, empowerment, and post-conflict resolution (Atkinson, 2018).…”

“…Gender-based development programs, as advanced and reinforced through the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, have become a pervasive tool of economic development, yet their potential impact on the dynamics of civil conflict remains underexamined (Cohn et al, 2004;Pearson, 2005;Waal, 2006). With regard to refugee crises, recent scholarship documents the historically established and persistent gender-based development programs operating within displaced environments through the architecture of the United Nations (Atkinson, 2018). Across their range of operations protecting and serving the needs of refugee and displaced populations, organizations like the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) coordinate broad efforts addressing emergency protection services, livelihoods programs, cash-based interventions, and education initiatives that often specifically and intentionally target female recipients.…”

“…Connections linking women's empowerment with economic development, peacebuilding processes, and international security motivate continued advancement of this trajectory (Duflo, 2012;Hudson et al, 2009;Lemiatre, 2016;Sifris & Tanyag, 2019;True, 2016;Warth & Koparanova, 2012). This sustained focus on women as recipients of development initiativesparticularly within displaced environments, themselves the established site of gender-focused development policiesoffers opportunities to disrupt conflict processes impacting displaced children (Atkinson, 2018).…”