connections and implications
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jennings, Kathleen M.
- Creator
- Nikolic-Ristanovic, Vesna
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- oorlog en vrede, vredesopbouw, economie, prostitutie, gelijke behandeling, Bosnië en Herzegovina, Haiti, Kosovo, Liberia, paper
- Description
- Exploration of some ramifications and lasting implications of peacekeeping economies, drawing on examples from four post-conflict countries with past or ongoing United Nations peacekeeping missions: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Liberia, and Haiti. The paper is particularly concerned with the interplay between the peacekeeping economy and the sex industry. It examines some of the characteristics and impacts of peacekeeping economies, arguing that these are highly gendered – but that the 'normalization' of peacekeeping economies allows these effects to be overlooked or obscured. It also contends that these gendered characteristics and impacts have broad and lasting consequences. Finally, the paper considers the initial impacts of UN efforts to tackle negative impacts of peacekeeping economies, particularly the zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation and the effort to 'mainstream' gender and promote gender equality in and through peacekeeping.