Women’s Roles in CVE

2018 ◽  
pp. 679-689
Author(s):  
Sri Wiyanti Eddyono ◽  
Sara E. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Peace And Security

This chapter examines recent attempts to apply evolving ideas regarding women’s empowerment, leadership, and participation to the issue of preventing and countering violence extremism (P/CVE). Incorporation of the central tenants of the women, peace, and security agenda in the UN Security Council Resolution on P/CVE and the 2016 Global Strategy for Countering and Preventing Terrorism and Violent Extremism has been a crucial and welcome development. The Global Strategy promotes the integration of a gender perspective across the framework and a more targeted, specific focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment within high-risk situations. Moreover, as this chapter demonstrates, the Global Strategy acknowledges the diversity of women’s roles and their agency in different areas, particularly in the more private and less public spaces. This chapter argues that private spaces and relationships can be sources of power to secure peace and security. It suggests that more effort is needed to enhance, support, and upscale women’s human rights activities and organizations that seek to address the issues of P/CVE. Finally, this chapter concludes that the international community needs to recognize, respect, and support women’s roles in interfaith communities.

Complementarity and Convergence?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naureen Chowdhury Fink ◽  
Alison Davidian
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Collateral Effects ◽  
The United Nations

This chapter analyses the gender dimension of terrorism and counterterrorism efforts. It explores women’s roles as both supporters and preventers of terrorism. It tracks the increasing incorporation of gender in the counterterrorism strategy of the United Nations and the growing focus on the intersections between the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) and countering terrorism agendas. The chapter suggests that the WPS Agenda and the countering violent extremism program are convergent and complementary. At the same time, counterterrorism measures have had gendered collateral effects and continue to utilize gender stereotypes. The chapter provides suggestions for what a more gender-sensitive approach would mean for counterterrorism efforts.

Analyzing women in counterterrorism

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-88
Author(s):  
Joana Cook
Keyword(s):  
Security Council ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Global Peace ◽  
Status Of Women

Chapter 1 discusses the book within the wider scholarly literature, situating it within three intersecting bodies of literature. Firstly, the literature on women, peace and security (especially that on UN Security Council Resolution 1325) has advanced the considerations and status of women generally in terms of global peace and security. Second, feminist security studies considers women more specifically in relation to the construction and practices of security. Third, terrorism studies which has increasingly considered women's roles and agency in terrorist groups, yet has not yet adequately considered if or how women's roles have impacted on counterterrorism practices. These three fields try to locate women in relation to security, considering agency, power relations and structures, and interrogate gender binaries in the field. Second, they try to bring to light women who perpetrate or support violence in militant and terrorist groups and their agency (which has direct implications for counterterrorism practices).

Political Dis-Empowerment of Women by ICTs

2016 ◽  
pp. 54-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Phiri
Keyword(s):  
Women Politicians ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Negative Edge

This chapter explores how bloggers in two Zambia online publications represent women politicians and how interlopers ‘frame' such politicians so as to exclude them from the public spaces. It argues that although ICTs are generally thought to be facilitators of women's empowerment, they can also be used to dis-empower the women with the full utilisation of cultural or religious frames and practices. It is further said that ICTs have both a positive and negative edge to them and thus should be used much more carefully.

The WPS Agenda

2018 ◽  
pp. 828-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swati Parashar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Global South ◽  
Security Council Resolution ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
A Site ◽  
Just Peace

This chapter offers a postcolonial critique of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. Moreover, it problematizes the emphasis on gender equality and women’s empowerment as universal outcomes for the implementation of a gender-just peace. In doing so, it suggests that the normative evolution of the WPS agenda that derives from UN Security Council Resolution 1325 produces a discourse for understanding WPS that perceives of individuals in the Global South as merely recipients of norms. To demonstrate the implications of this claim, the chapter draws from attempts to include the WPS agenda in the development of policies designed to counter violent extremism (CVE). It highlights the failure of these policies to account for the complex histories of political violence and extremist ideologies rooted in colonial encounters. In response, this chapter argues that for the WPS agenda to acquire universal character and meaning, the Global South must be employed as a site of knowledge and investigation.

The WPS Agenda and Strategy for the Twenty-First Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 839-849
Author(s):  
Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
Keyword(s):  
Security Council ◽  
First Century ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 recognized the critical roles women can and must play in advancing international peace and security. The WPS agenda, however, has focused largely on the protection of women in conflict, in particular from sexual and gender-based violence. In doing so, the substantive participation of women in peace and security remains significantly underexplored. This chapter suggests that the lack of progress on the WPS agenda is due to the perception that it is a women’s agenda, as opposed to one that seeks to advance gender equality and security. Moreover, this chapter reveals the challenges associated with the disparate nature of the WPS and security communities. In response, this chapter suggests that for the WPS agenda to advance, the community needs to emphasize that this is not only a women’s agenda. Specifically, the dialogue needs to be reframed to acknowledge that a focus on women is necessary, but not sufficient.

Women’s Roles in Technical Innovation

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ipek Ilkkaracan ◽  
Helen Appleton
Keyword(s):  
Technical Innovation ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women’S Roles

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Through Microfinance - A Case of Rural Bangladesh

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Saida Parvin
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Donor Agencies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

Women’s empowerment has been at the centre of research focus for many decades. Extant literature examined the process, outcome and various challenges. Some claimed substantial success, while others contradicted with evidence of failure. But the success remains a matter of debate due to lack of empirical evidence of actual empowerment of women around the world. The current study aimed to address this gap by taking a case study method. The study critically evaluates 20 cases carefully sampled to include representatives from the entire country of Bangladesh. The study demonstrates popular beliefs about microfinance often misguide even the borrowers and they start living in a fabricated feeling of empowerment, facing real challenges to achieve true empowerment in their lives. The impact of this finding is twofold; firstly there is a theoretical contribution, where the definition of women’s empowerment is proposed to be revisited considering findings from these cases. And lastly, the policy makers at governmental and non-governmental organisations, and multinational donor agencies need to revise their assessment tools for funding.

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