The Politics of Women, Peace, and Security in UN Mediation - Catriona Standfield

The Politics of Women, Peace, and Security in UN Mediation

Buch | Hardcover
255 Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-51226-8 (ISBN)
99,75 inkl. MwSt
The United Nations has struggled to ensure that the peace processes it mediates are gender-sensitive and inclusive of women. This book is the first in-depth analysis of how the UN's everyday narratives and practices are gendered, making it difficult to fully realise inclusive peace mediation.
This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive analysis of the United Nations' efforts to incorporate the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda into its mediation practices. Based on extensive fieldwork and primary material, the book examines how gendered and racialised ideas about mediation as an 'art' or a 'science' have shaped the UN's approach to WPS. Senior mediators view mediation as an art of managing relationships with mostly male negotiators, meaning that including women can threaten parties' consent to the process. Meanwhile, experts and headquarters units see mediation as a science, resulting in the co-optation of gender expertise and local women to reinforce technical approaches to mediation. This has hindered the WPS agenda's goal of meaningful women's participation in peace processes. This book is an essential read for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners interested in gender, peace, and security.

Catriona Standfield is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Worcester State University. She was previously a research fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Her work has been awarded by the International Studies Association and the Academic Council on the UN System.

1. Where are the Women in UN Mediation?; 2. The WPS Agenda and UN Mediation; Part I. Narratives; 3. Art or Science? Narrative Struggles over the Meaning of UN Mediation; 4. The Science of UN Mediation; 5. The Art of UN Mediation; Part III. Subjects; 6. Femininities in UN Mediation; 7. Masculinities in UN Mediation; 8. Decolonial Feminist Peacemaking.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.1.2025
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-009-51226-9 / 1009512269
ISBN-13 978-1-009-51226-8 / 9781009512268
Zustand Neuware
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