Gender and Security Agenda

<p>This book examines the gender dimensions of a wide array of national and international security challenges.</p><p>The volume examines gender dynamics in ten issue areas in both the traditional and human security sub-fields: armed conflict post-conflict terrorism military organizations movement of people development environment humanitarian emergencies human rights governance. The contributions show how gender affects security and how security problems affect gender issues. </p><p>Each chapter also examines a common set of key factors across the issue areas: obstacles to progress drivers of progress and long-term strategies for progress in the 21st century. The volume develops key scholarship on the gender dimensions of security challenges and thereby provides a foundation for improved strategies and policy directions going forward. The lesson to be drawn from this study is clear: if scholars policymakers and citizens care about these issues then they need to think about both security and gender.</p><p>This will be of much interest to students of gender studies security studies human security and International Relations in general.</p>