un and global governance lecture 11 [656f5351]

IO's do not hold the solutions!

• UNSCR 1325
• noticing that 1325 is insufficient

requires us to move beyond the checklist problems

• can we think through rules of law without aggressive policing?

rwanda - women outnumbered men following the genocide, which meant that they had to take on certain roles

• poverty rates of women and sexual violence is very high, large power imbalance between the genders

iraq - women had to have funding to run for parliment

• in post conflict countries, money speaks
• war economies are hard to let go

G7 feminist development agenda principles

• many unresolved questions (youth, minorities)

• 4 main elements

  • transformative change

    • aims to redress the historical power imbalances between mena nd women

  • intersectionality

    • multiple aspects of identity that play out in people's lives

  • agency

    • importance of agency, either an individual or group's ability to make choices to transform those choices into desired outcomes
    • UN is often seen as a part of government

  • process

    • feminist aid prioritizes not only reuslts, but the process used to achieve them
    • marlyin strathrone
• silos have very limited impact

training local staff to go out and collect information in somalia

• found out 74% of women were breadwinners

Notions of "masculinity" - peace as feminine and war as masculine

• which leads to the idea that women are more active in peacebuilding activites then they actually are
• the partipation of women in the peace process
• requires speciifc advocacy of women following the conflict

views on sexual violence are extremely skewed towards women

• pregent women, mothers, and victims of sexual violence

gender mainstreaming -> how do you make the topic of gender dead?

• you make it a mechanical bureacratic process,
• this is difficult to assess within a particular organization