This report is an evaluation synthesis to examine experiences in mainstreaming gender equality across multilateral and bilateral donor organisations; and in so doing, to highlight trends (commonalities and differences) in findings, challenges faced, and good practices. This synthesis looked at 26 thematic and country evaluations, undertaken between 1990 and 2010, that focused ...» more
Library
This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, 2012-2018
The National Action Plan sets out what Australia will do, at home and overseas, to integrate a gender perspective into its peace and security efforts, protect women and girls’ human rights, and promote their participation in conflict prevention, management and resolution. It also commits the Government to report every two years to the Australian Federal Parliament on the ...» more
Women’s health, men’s health, and gender and health: Implications of intersectionality
Intersectionality challenges practices that privilege any specific axis of inequality, such as race, class, or gender and emphasizes the potential of varied and fluid configurations of social locations and interacting social processes in the production of inequities. Although intersectionality is now recognized in the context of women’s health, men’s health, and gender and ...» more
Religion and Peacebuilding: Reflections on Current Challenges and Future Prospects
What role does religion play in peacebuilding? American and European nongovernmental organizations, agencies in the U.S. government, academia, and international organizations—sectors that once held religious issues at a distance or understood religion mainly as a driver of violence—increasingly engage religious communities and institutions as partners in creating peace. ...» more
Introducing Hybrid Peace Governance: Impact and Prospects of Liberal Peacebuilding
International efforts to promote peace and democratic institutions frequently clash with different understandings of the meaning and implications of these terms. International and domestic actors enter into a bargaining relationship whereby each actor attempts to promote its own values, norms, and practices. The end result is a condition of hybrid peace governance, in which ...» more