Gender Mainstreaming In Peacekeeping Operations ... - Resdal

security but also the attention to the groups and thus their impact
on empowerment, role modeling and gender conditions.
Female peacekeepers from the Ghanaian and Nigerian Battalions
are included here as a potential best practice, not as a best
practice. The reason is that these peacekeepers hold supportive
as opposed to direct impact roles. This reduces their visibility
in the community and the amount of time they can interface
with the local population. Despite this limitation, the female
peacekeepers have identified a unique opportunity to impact
the community through their interpersonal interactions and
have used immense energy and personal time to participate in
such activities.
“In Africa, women have never shied away from the
backbreaking work of family and home life. However,
it has been taboo to consider them powerful. Now
that women are driving tanks and using heavy military
equipment there has been a signal that women are able
to do the difficult things they have really been doing for
years.” 27 UNDP Gender Advisor
27 Interview: UNDP Gender Advisor.
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