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Why Women? Effective engagement for small arms control (2011)

26 October 2011

Given the ongoing questions and challenges to women’s participation in peace and security, this publication aims to show why it is important to include women in small arms control and disarmament initiatives by consolidating information and opinions from experts on gender and security issues. It is based on interviews with 17 practitioners from around the world as well as a review of relevant materials and documents. It first presents a number of reasons for and examples why women’s participation is important in the field of small arms control and disarmament. It then highlights some of the challenges to women’s participation and provides some suggestions for overcoming them.

Author:
Corey Barr with Sarah Masters

Publisher:
IANSA Women's Network

Original document:

iansa_why_women_2011.pdf (1561074 bytes)