A global South state's challenge to gendered global cultures of peacekeeping

Lesley J. Pruitt

doi:10.1093/oso/9780190644031.003.0008

A global South state's challenge to gendered global cultures of peacekeeping

Lesley J. Pruitt

Politics & International Relations

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Abstract

This chapter explores the first all-female formed police unit (FFPU) in UN peacekeeping, deployed from India to Liberia. The FFPU has fostered important outcomes supporting the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. However, global norms that presume efforts can only be “legitimate” when conducted in ways that align with particular, Global North approaches can hinder implementation of the WPS agenda. Such norms marginalize differences that intersect with gender and influence participation. Effective implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the WPS agenda will not occur under assumptions that only some states, or only certain kinds of states, can credibly contribute; instead, a plurality of approaches is needed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Revisiting Gendered States
Subtitle of host publication	Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations
Editors	Swati Parashar, J. Ann Tickner, Jacqui True
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Chapter	8
Pages	122-137
Number of pages	16
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9780190644055 , 9780190644062
ISBN (Print)	9780190644048, 9780190644031
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644031.003.0008
Publication status	Published - 2018

Publication series

Name	Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations
Publisher	Oxford University Press

Keywords

peacekeeping
United Nations
policing
women
India
Liberia
WPS

UN SDGs

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Pruitt, L. J. (2018). A global South state's challenge to gendered global cultures of peacekeeping. In S. Parashar, J. A. Tickner, & J. True (Eds.), Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations (1st ed., pp. 122-137). (Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644031.003.0008

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