Defence and Gender
Defence and Gender

Author(s): Callum Watson
Subject(s): Politics, Gender Studies, Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: The South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC)
Keywords: Gender; Security Sector
Summary/Abstract: More than a decade has passed since the publication of the DCAF, OSCE/ODIHR and UNINSTRAW Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit, including its Tool on “Defence Reform and Gender”. Since then a stream of UN Security Council resolutions on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) have been adopted. These reflect an increasingly nuanced understanding of the linkages between women’s participation, gender equality, security and development. In parallel, understandings of gender have widened, moving beyond a focus only on women to consider also men and masculinities, and the relationships between gender discrimination and discrimination based upon sexual orientation or gender identity. Gender inequality and the negative effects of conflict on women, men, girls and boys are recognized not as inevitable, but as a consequence of inadequate laws, policies and practices.

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