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un and global governance lecture 11

Tags: UN and Global Governance

Anou Borrey - Somalia

  • governance and peacebuilding of international settings
  • IO’s do not hold the solutions!
  • 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
  • the UN thinks it brings solutions, but does not look carefully enough at the coping mechanisms developed in communities
  • a women is always refered to wrt to their relationship to men
  • UNDP - local governance project being looked at
  • most interesting work are happening in the communities
  • not enough engagement with the local community and local history

Gender

  • 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
  • women are entering an institution where the binary of masculinity and feminity are bound
  • 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

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