Gender and Private Military and Security Companies: The Crucial Role for Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments

  • Audrey Reeves and Anike Doherty

Summary

This article discusses the relationship between gender and private security and military companies, paying particular attention to trafficking and sexual abuse, and offers solutions for how these companies can deter their representatives and employees from committing such abuses. The article offers a framework of solutions to the problems of overrepresentation of males in companies and in stability operations as a whole and they explore human rights abuses, like trafficking and sexual abuse.

Citation

Reeves, Audrey and Anike Doherty. “Gender and Private Military and Security Companies: The Crucial Role for Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments.” Journal of International Peace Operations 7, no. 4 (2012): 8-9.

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