South Asian Peacekeeping: Regional Possibilities

Basu, Soumita

doi:10.1080/00358533.2016.1272949

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“…24 Basu also highlights the need for intersectionality, and writes that countries like India host peacekeeping missions themselves, such as India and Pakistan continuing to host the UN Military Observer Group that was established in 1949, and there is critique of the paradox of their own security issues. 25 For example, a 2018 poll by Thomson Reuters found India to be the most dangerous country for women. Interestingly, and also paradoxically, the US, which is the greatest financial contributor to UN peacekeeping, was ranked 10th in the same survey.…”

Section: Gender and ''Smart'' Peacekeepingmentioning

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Smart peacekeeping: Deploying Canadian women for a better peace?

Biskupski-Mujanovic

2019

International Journal

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Canada announced its renewed commitment to United Nations peacekeeping with a special mission to increase the representation of women through the Elsie Initiative. That announcement marks a crucial time to examine peacekeeping as a gendered project that requires reflection on power and inequality between states and peacekeepers through an intersectional analysis that pays attention to gender and race. The major justification for increasing the number of women in peacekeeping operations has remained instrumental: deploying more women will lead to kinder, gentler, less abusive, and more efficient missions. However, there is little empirical evidence to support these claims. This paper looks at Canadian peacekeeping and arguments for women’s increased representation in peacekeeping operations for improved operational effectiveness as a “smart” peacekeeping strategy. It looks at the contradictions and controversies in Canadian peacekeeping and gender and smart peacekeeping that includes the Women, Peace, and Security agenda in general and within Canada, operational effectiveness claims, militarized masculinity, and militarized femininity. Without qualitative empirical data from Canadian women peacekeepers themselves, smart peacekeeping claims, which “add women and stir,” are largely anecdotal and do not adequately facilitate meaningful change.

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Section: Gender and ''Smart'' Peacekeepingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart peacekeeping: Deploying Canadian women for a better peace?

Biskupski-Mujanovic

2019

International Journal

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South Asian Peacekeeping: Regional Possibilities

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Smart peacekeeping: Deploying Canadian women for a better peace?

Smart peacekeeping: Deploying Canadian women for a better peace?

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