Gender and Private Military and Security Companies: The Crucial Role for Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments
Categories: Peace Support Operations
Sub-Categories: Peacemaking, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Security Sector Reform (SSR), Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Region: No Region
Year: 2012
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.
Sub-Categories: Peacemaking, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Security Sector Reform (SSR), Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Region: No Region
Year: 2012
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.
Executive 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.