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Women Targeted or Affected by Armed Conflict: What Role for Military Peacekeepers?

Authored by: Anne-Marie Goetz and Letitia Anderson

Categories: Peace Support Operations, Statebuilding, Violent Conflict
Sub-Categories: National Security Forces and Armed Groups, Peacekeeping, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Region: No Region
Year: 2008
Citation: Goetz, Anne-Marie and Letitia Anderson. Women Targeted or Affected by Armed Conflict: What Role for Military Peacekeepers? New York: United Nations Fund for Women, 2008.

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Executive Summary

This conference report provides a review of current peacekeeping practice in the prevention of widespread and systematic sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict contexts, with a view to identify existing efforts to prevent the targeting of women and children for sexual violence within current peacekeeping approaches to civilian protection and building a policy consensus on sexual violence as a security issue backed by mandates, means, training and incentives for effective response.