Gender Equality and United Nations Peace Operations in Timor Leste

Olsson (peace and conflict, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Sweden) has taken part in discussions and negotiations hammering out United Nations policies for a decade. At some point she realized that while knowledge about the processes of war and peace were increasing, as were insights about the roles of men and women in social and political processes, the two areas had not been cross-fertilized to explore the importance, and especially the potential, of understanding gender roles in building and keeping peace. She takes as a case study the South Pacific country until recently known as East Timor, and the bitter internal conflicts that arose in the wake of independence from Indonesia in 1999. Martinus Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill, and displays the same high standard for both its physical volumes and the scholarship within them. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Louise Olsson, Ph.D. (2007) in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University is Assistant Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research and project leader at the Folke Bernadotte Academy in Sweden. She has co-edited Women and International Peacekeeping (2001) and a special issue of Security Dialogue on Gender and Security (2005) as well as published in International Peacekeeping.