Participation, Gender and Security

Heathcote, Gina

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“…17 Puechguirbal (2010), pp 180ff; Duncanson and Woodward (2016), p 7. 18 Engle (2014), p 23;Heathcote (2014), p 54. 19 Charlesworth (2005), p 1.…”

Section: Gender Feminism Queer and Masculinities Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…25 Bulmer (2017), p 163. 26 Heathcote (2014), p 53. 27 For discussions of stereotypes of the passive, sexually-victimised, racialized women, see: Heathcote (2014), p 50, and generally Kapur (2000); Kapur (2006a); Kapur (2013).…”

Section: Gender Feminism Queer and Masculinities Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…26 Heathcote (2014), p 53. 27 For discussions of stereotypes of the passive, sexually-victimised, racialized women, see: Heathcote (2014), p 50, and generally Kapur (2000); Kapur (2006a); Kapur (2013). For discussions of western forces as rational liberal subjets, protectors and gratners of human rights, see Kapur (2006a), p 678, where Kapur discusses how the liberal human rights project grew from Western systems that create classes of less rational, colonialised others, distinct from European rational liberal subjects, and how colonialism was justified in part based on arguments that 'treatment of women was used in part as a justification for colonial intervention and the civilising mission' of colonial power.…”

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Well-intentioned but missing the point: the Australian Defence Force approach to addressing conflict-based sexual violence

Paige

Stagg

2020

Griffith Law Review

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issue of military discipline that was usually ignored is relatively recent. 3 It was only with the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda prosecuting CBSV as constitutive elements of either torture, crimes against humanity, or genocide that saw the shift of international jurisprudence considering CBSV a jus cogens crime against the victim's personhood, 4 rather than simply a disciplinary issue to be addressed internally by the military.This condemnation of CBSV that focused upon the victim's personhood rather than questions of military discipline was the key catalyst for the UN's WPS agenda, beginning with UNSCR 1325, and gaining focus on CBSV through UNSCRs 1820UNSCRs , 1882UNSCRs , 1888UNSCRs , 1960UNSCRs , 2106UNSCRs , and 2272. These resolutions form the cornerstone of international efforts to combat CBSV, in particular, ending impunity for perpetrators of these jus cogens crimes. Further, these resolutions have been strongly criticised by feminist and queer scholars as the decisions rely upon archaic gender stereotyping, a lack of inclusive language that renders all but female civilian victims of CBSV invisible, and for addressing gender as a purely binary concept. 5 The question before us is whether Australia has adopted the same approach as the UN through its NAP and following on from that, how this impacts upon the ADF's efforts to combat CBSV in operations.The original research design for this paper was going to involve interviews with ADF personnel (current and former) in relation to this issue. This research design had to be scuttled because the joint Department of Defence and Department of Veterans Affairs Human Research Ethics Committee (DDVA HREC) claimed jurisdiction over the ethics application (even though the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research provides no such authority), 6 and the DDVA HREC ethics approval guidelines provide it with the right to prohibit any and all publications arising from the research. 7 Given this infringement upon the integrity of independent research, we declined to submit an ethics application to pursue an interview-based inquiry and have instead explored this question through two separate analyses. Following a very brief overview of feminist, masculinity theory, and queer theory issues relevant to our discussion, we examine, through a critical discourse analysis, 8 the NAP and other associated governmental macro policy documents relating to Australia's engagement with the WPS agenda. While these policy documents do not articulate the ADF approach to combating CBSV, an examination of them is necessary because they form the foundational framework from which the ADF policies and responses have sprung. Second is a parsing of documents (also using a critical discourse analysis method) obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request to the Department of Defence for relevant documents related to the implementation of 96 Vandenheuvel (2015), p 11. 97 des ...

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“…17 Puechguirbal (2010), pp 180ff; Duncanson and Woodward (2016), p 7. 18 Engle (2014), p 23;Heathcote (2014), p 54. 19 Charlesworth (2005), p 1.…”

Section: Gender Feminism Queer and Masculinities Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gender Feminism Queer and Masculinities Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gender Feminism Queer and Masculinities Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Well-intentioned but missing the point: the Australian Defence Force approach to addressing conflict-based sexual violence

Paige

Stagg

2020

Griffith Law Review

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“…Based on our previous research with WPS changemakers, we decided to broaden our focus on the larger field of international development rather than more narrowly on WPS because of the dominant ways peace and security are largely understood as located within an international development frame (see Aoláin and Valji, 2019; Cornwall and Rivas, 2015; Gbowee, 2019; Heathcote and Otto, 2014; Luttrell-Rowland et al, 2021). We placed a particular focus on indicators measuring African contexts in order to speak directly to the intertwined historical projects of gendered and racialized understandings of conflict, peace and development (Mama, 1997) and how common insecurity and civil unrest are presented as largely occurring in the Global South.…”

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Dominant Development Indexes’ Construction of Gender and Challenges for Recognizing Everyday Activism for Peace and Security

Luttrell-Rowland,

Rhee,

Okujagu

2023

Progress in Development Studies

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Developed organizations have increasingly garnered numerous indicators to measure gender and development outcomes. Yet, measurements themselves reflect a logic of the arenas where development occurs and can be captured, and therefore reflect where women are imagined to predominantly exist. Based on the analysis of 1,298 indicators across 15 major development databases covering African countries, this article argues that mainstream development organizations predominantly understand gender in terms of institutional sites. Sometimes these were sites for intervention, or a place for institutional ‘betterment’ (a hospital, a work place, and a school). Other times, these sites were conceptualized as natural places where women would be (the family and the nation state). We identify the spatial logics underpinning these development indicators, and link them to larger historical gendered and racialized colonial logics organizing diverse social, economic, and cultural lives, where economic and institutional sites are promoted, a more nuanced and relational one is displaced. Ultimately, these spatial imaginings extend to the larger context of where debates about peace and security are situated—namely in largely individual, state-driven, and institutional-centric ways.

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Participation, Gender and Security

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Well-intentioned but missing the point: the Australian Defence Force approach to addressing conflict-based sexual violence

Well-intentioned but missing the point: the Australian Defence Force approach to addressing conflict-based sexual violence

Dominant Development Indexes’ Construction of Gender and Challenges for Recognizing Everyday Activism for Peace and Security

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