Gender Equality and United Nations Peace Operations in Timor Leste (International Peacekeeping)

CONTENTS......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 18
PART I SETTING THE STAGE......Page 20
1. Introduction......Page 22
1.1 What we need to know......Page 24
1.2  Why Timor-Leste?......Page 28
1.3  Overview of study......Page 30
2. Creating a Framework......Page 32
2.1  Positioning the basic ideas......Page 34
Gender power-relations......Page 37
Dimensions of gender power-relations......Page 41
2.3 What causes change in gender power-relations?......Page 46
The context of armed confl ict......Page 47
A peace operation intervenes......Page 51
2.4 Conclusions......Page 65
PART II INTO THE FIELD IN TIMOR-LESTE......Page 68
3.1  Focus of description......Page 70
Sources and information......Page 71
3.2  Overview of time-period and operations......Page 73
4.1  Timorese parties and gender power-relations......Page 78
4.2 Confl ict and gender power-relations......Page 84
4.3 The Timor-Leste confl ict and the UN......Page 88
5.1 The mandate and structure of UN operations......Page 92
Security versus politics? UNTAET peacekeeping and peacebuilding......Page 102
5.2 UN operation policy and Timorese security......Page 104
Establishing security through military means......Page 105
Handling the old and new military of Timor-Leste......Page 110
Creating internal security......Page 117
Creating insecurity?—The behavior of UN peace-operation personnel......Page 126
5.3 UN operation policy and Timorese politics......Page 131
Administrating a state......Page 132
Organizing democratic elections......Page 139
Building government......Page 152
PART III PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER......Page 160
6.1 Advancing gender power-relations......Page 162
Political Equality......Page 163
Security Equality......Page 166
Conclusions......Page 172
Awareness in implementation......Page 173
Handling local military......Page 178
Local cooperation......Page 179
Personnel behavior......Page 181
Gender-balanced composition......Page 182
Operation leadership......Page 184
Conclusions......Page 186
6.3  Are these effects unique for Timor-Leste?......Page 189
7.1  What we have learned?......Page 196
7.2  Where do we go from here?......Page 200
List of interviews......Page 206
Bibliography......Page 208
Index
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