Gender Roles in Peace and Security
Publisher: Springer
Author(s): Manuela Scheuermann and Anja Zürn
Date: 2019
Topics: Conflict Prevention, Dispute Resolution/Mediation, Gender, Governance, Protection and Access to Justice
The disastrous consequences for the rights and physical and psychological protection of women during the wars of the 1990s, primarily in Somalia, Rwanda and Ex-Yugoslavia, shifted the focus of the United Nations (UN) Security Council towards human security and the protection of women. Due to advocating by women’s groups like the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and strong impulses from the 1995 Fourth Conference on Women in Beijing to include gender mainstreaming perspectives in all UN peace operations, the UN Security Council put gender in peace and security, especially the role of women, on its agenda.