With the underlying assumption that gender equality
is an essential prerequisite for any sustainable development and peace-building
activity, this paper offers an analytical framework and guidelines on gender
mainstreaming in crisis prevention and conflict management. This is shown
both on a conceptual and practical level.
The first part discusses the conceptual and
analytical terrain for gender main-streaming in crisis prevention and conflict
management, while the second gives examples of a gender-sensitive approach
in the fields of mobilisation and empowerment of peace constituencies,
peace negotiations, and demobilisation of female and male combatants.
The paper aims to provide theoreticians and
practitioners with an outline of the international discussion so far, and
to answer the question why gender matters in crisis prevention and conflict
management.
Source: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
Country: World
