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A New Gender Era?

Bloom, Josefin LU (2019) STVK12 20191
Department of Political Science
Abstract
The premise of this thesis was to explore United Nations construction of gender in their Guidance on gender and inclusive mediation strategies. The Guidance, published in 2017, stem from United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security in 2000, which stressed the importance of including women in peace processes. Through Lazar’s feminist critical discourse analysis, the Guidance was analyzed and compared against the poststructuralist feminism theoretical framework, which presented the fundamental critiques of UN discourses; the construction of gender in WPS; the existing homogenization of women in discourses especially in relation to the Global South; and the framing of female mediators as victims or agents of... (More)
The premise of this thesis was to explore United Nations construction of gender in their Guidance on gender and inclusive mediation strategies. The Guidance, published in 2017, stem from United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security in 2000, which stressed the importance of including women in peace processes. Through Lazar’s feminist critical discourse analysis, the Guidance was analyzed and compared against the poststructuralist feminism theoretical framework, which presented the fundamental critiques of UN discourses; the construction of gender in WPS; the existing homogenization of women in discourses especially in relation to the Global South; and the framing of female mediators as victims or agents of change. The study derived the following from the critical discourse analysis; the UN continues to discursively construct an arbitrary view of gender in relation to mediation; in terms of homogeneity, the UN link women’s ability to advance in mediation with men’s absence; and women continue to be linked to victimhood and gender violence. This thesis argues a new perspective within WPS has emerged in relation to UN’s newfound awareness of gender implications, where a gender sensitive approach has led to ambiguous gender discussions and that women’s challenges are now considered gender issues (Less)
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Bloom, Josefin LU
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organization
course
STVK12 20191
year
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
United Nations, Mediation, Gender, WPS, UNSCR 1325
language
English
id
8977830
date added to LUP
2019-09-06 09:12:55
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2019-09-06 09:12:55
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  abstract     = {{The premise of this thesis was to explore United Nations construction of gender in their Guidance on gender and inclusive mediation strategies. The Guidance, published in 2017, stem from United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security in 2000, which stressed the importance of including women in peace processes. Through Lazar’s feminist critical discourse analysis, the Guidance was analyzed and compared against the poststructuralist feminism theoretical framework, which presented the fundamental critiques of UN discourses; the construction of gender in WPS; the existing homogenization of women in discourses especially in relation to the Global South; and the framing of female mediators as victims or agents of change. The study derived the following from the critical discourse analysis; the UN continues to discursively construct an arbitrary view of gender in relation to mediation; in terms of homogeneity, the UN link women’s ability to advance in mediation with men’s absence; and women continue to be linked to victimhood and gender violence. This thesis argues a new perspective within WPS has emerged in relation to UN’s newfound awareness of gender implications, where a gender sensitive approach has led to ambiguous gender discussions and that women’s challenges are now considered gender issues}},
  author       = {{Bloom, Josefin}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{A New Gender Era?}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}