| ID | 142023 |
| Title Proper | When “gender” started |
| Other Title Information | the United Nations in post-occupation Timor-Leste |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Smith, Sarah |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article examines gender mainstreaming processes in successive UN peacebuilding missions in Timor-Leste, with a focus on the relationship between these missions and the national women's organizations who were vehicles for implementation. Apparent frictions occur in this process and the article suggests that the gender rhetoric and practice incorporated into UN peacebuilding since 2000 can have potentially destabilizing effects for women's activism in post-conflict settings. Women's organizations socialize and negotiate around gender norms in order to mitigate this potential and aim to identify the synergies between women's activism before peacebuilding, and gender mainstreaming policies and practice post-conflict. This article provides insight into how national women's organizations socialize gender norms, as well as how women's post-conflict activism can be shaped by the presence of UN peacebuilding. |
| `In' analytical Note | Global Change Peace and Security Vol. 27, No.1; Feb 2015: p.55-67 |
| Journal Source | Global Change Peace and Security Vol: 27 No 1 |
| Key Words | Peacebuilding ; Gender ; Timor-Leste ; United Nations |