- 236 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book offers an accessible overview of the issues related to the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) global agenda. This new edition has been updated and includes new chapters on WPS and Environmental Change and on WPS in Regional and Security Organizations.
The 2nd edition provides explains Women, Peace and Security as a security framework, different though related to both gender equality as a social justice issue or a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion issue. Within the context of the changing nature of warfare, a complex and volatile global political climate, and through consideration of empirical evidence, it examines the definitions, theoretical underpinnings and methodological challenges associated with implementing WPS. It then discusses with more specificity violence against women, women civilians in war, the role of women in peacemaking, women in the military and in development, and women politicians, with new material on environmental change and on regional and security organisations. Examples and case studies draw from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North and South America. The need for more sex-disaggregated data on every topic is emphasized throughout, necessary to both demonstrate relationships between gender and security and to identify solutions to problems. The book concludes with a look to the future and number of action items from the macro to the micro level.
This book will be of much interest to students of peace studies, security studies, gender studies and IR, as well as professional military college students.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 A place and a voice at the table
- 2 The role of feminist theory
- 3 Patriarchies
- 4 Prejudice and enculturation
- 5 Gender-based violence
- 6 Women and development
- 7 Gender, the environment, and climate change
- 8 Women in conflict
- 9 Women and peacemaking
- 10 Women in the military
- 11 Women political leaders
- 12 Women, peace, and security in security organizations
- 13 Moving forward
- Index