Peer-Reviewed Journal Details
Mandatory Fields
Kenneth McDonagh and Maria-Adriana Deiana
2018
Unknown
Global Society
Translating the Women, Peace and Security Agenda into EU Common Security and Defence Policy: Reflections from EU Peacebuilding
Published
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Optional Fields
Gender, CSDP, WPS, EU, Balkans
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4
415
435
Existing studies of European Union Common Security and Defence Policy (EU CSDP) missions often rely on a conceptualisation of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) implementation as a technical, linear and deterministic process. While this scholarship is part of a concerted effort to develop an accountability mechanism and push for organisational change, this paper contends that we also need a more grounded and contextual approach to capture the complex, ambivalent and often tortuous translation of WPS into CSDP relatively new security practices. This suggests that a deeper interrogation of what meaning(s) mainstreaming gender assumes in the context of EU CSDP missions and how this conceptualisation informs the practice of peacekeeping is required. Drawing on interviews with EU peacekeeping personnel, we outline an ambivalent account of how different CSDP actors interpret WPS and gender mainstreaming and compose it in use, with different effects.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2018.1474183
Grant Details
Irish Research Council (IRC)
REPRO/2015/101