Integrating Gender in Peacekeeping Training: An Approach from the ECOWAS Subregion
Categories: Peace Support Operations
Sub-Categories: Peacekeeping
Country: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2012
Citation: Alaga, Ecoma and Emma Biriorang. Integrating Gender in Peacekeeping Training: An Approach from the ECOWAS Subregion. Nairobi: Pambazuka Press, 2012.
Sub-Categories: Peacekeeping
Country: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2012
Citation: Alaga, Ecoma and Emma Biriorang. Integrating Gender in Peacekeeping Training: An Approach from the ECOWAS Subregion. Nairobi: Pambazuka Press, 2012.
Abstract
This paper examines the trajectory of gender integration in training for peacekeeping within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It focuses on the strategies by which gender and particularly women's rights considerations have been integrated into ECOWAS' peacekeeping agenda. It specifically focuses on and situates the discourse within the context of training for peacekeeping and peace support operations, which has thus far been the most obvious entry point for the integration of gender perspectives.