Mainstreaming Gender
Pilot Project
 Engendering the Peace Movement


Pilot Project: Implementing a Gender Perspective in Civilian-based Peacekeeping Missions

Recent civil society contributions to conflict management and peacebuilding have included civilian-based peace services, such as Peace Brigades International (PBI), Ziviler Friedensdienst (Civil Peace Services-Germany), the international Nonviolent Peace Force (currently deployed in Sri Lanka), the International Women’s Peace Service in Palestine and the European Peacebuilding Agency initiative.

WPP was invited to national and international conferences to share its expertise during discussion on the impact of conflict on women’s lives, the need for a gender perspective in peace building, and how to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
When attending conferences where military peacekeeping was discussed, the challenges of implementing a gender perspective in peacekeeping missions became apparent.
At the same time WPP received signals from the field that civilian-based peacekeeping missions also faced difficulties implementing a gender perspective in their work, or lacked gender awareness altogether.

 

Based on this information, WPP decided to organize a pilot project on this topic in cooperation with Peace Brigades International (PBI). PBI the oldest civilian-based peace organization in the world, it is also in the stage of implementing a gender and diversity policy. From PBI’s five country projects, it was decided to focus on PBI Indonesia for the pilot project.

As Case study, the Pilot project will address some questions:

  • What are the challenges in terms of gender faced during the field mission in the field?
  • How are these challenges addressed?
  • Are there any difficulties in addressing the challenges, and if so, what?
  • What is needed to overcome them

It is expected that the pilot research will:

  • Document and analyse the field mission from a gender perspective.
  • Contribute to improve the work of civilian-based peace keeping and peace building organizations, with concrete and practical recommendations as how to integrate a gender perspective in their work.

For any information related to the Pilot Project, please contact the WPP Gender Officer Cristina Reyna.