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"Gender and the State" published on by Oxford University Press.

This book examines the relationship between women, gender and the international security agenda, exploring the meaning of security in terms of discourse and practice, as well as the larger goals and strategies of the global women's movement.

Explores how the UN is responding to changes in the global security agenda in the context of genders role in UN peacekeeping operations. At issue is whether gender mainstreaming strategies are being implemented in UN peace operations per resolution 1325. Focus is on the process-oriented measures of four gender mainstreaming strategies currently used in UN peacekeeping operations & related to the areas of peacekeeping mandates, peacekeeping leadership, peacekeeper gender training, & the peacekeeping-civil society (ie, local womens groups) relationship. Analysis of six UN peacekeeping missions indicates that these strategies are being implemented & the role of women in peacekeeping missions is expanding. Implications that the incorporation of gender might have for approaches to international security & conflict resolution are considered in closing. Adapted from the source document.

Scholarship on international police reform and Women, Peace and Security (WPS) has flourished in the last decade and the potential for engagement across these two bodies of literature is promising. Given the increased use of police personnel in international peace missions and emphasis on gender mainstreaming policies, the need for assessing the impact of these two trends has never been greater. Thus, this paper seeks to bridge gaps between the mainstream policing scholarship and feminist scholars focused on post-conflict peacebuilding police reforms. We explore how feminist scholars can engage with policing literature's technocratic language and 'in the field' experience as well as how policing scholars can interact with feminist scholars to transform traditional approaches to security in the context of the WPS Agenda. We demonstrate the benefits of increased dialogue and interaction by highlighting the common and diverging challenges in both fields in three areas: the design, implementation, and evaluation. Finally, to illustrate the dynamic intersection of these areas of study and practice, we examine the transnational policing efforts to gender mainstream the Liberian National Police (LNP) in the context of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).