Behind the Statistics: A Feminist Take on Militarisation
Behind the Statistics: A Feminist Take on Militarisation

Author(s): Jasmina Čaušević
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Sarajevo Open Centre
Keywords: gender; security; military; feminism; UN; Security Council; Resolution 1325;
Summary/Abstract: Although many feminists, including anti-militarist feminists, argue that gender mainstreaming has blunted the blade of feminism and opened the door to donor policies and non-governmental organisations, which simplified feminist fight and weakened transnational nature of the feminist movement, we must wonder what equality situation would be like and where women would be today had it not been for the ideas that promote gender mainstreaming. We understand this term the way it was explained by Jadranka Rebeka Anić citing the Glossary titled: 100 Words for Equality – in essence, it is about gender-conscious policy making, in other words: The systematic integration of the respective situations, priorities and needs of women and men in all policies and with a view to promoting equality between women and men and mobilising all general policies and measures specifically for the purpose of achieving equality by actively and openly taking into account, at the planning stage, their effects on the respective situations of women and men in implementation, monitoring and evaluation (Anić, 2011, p. 26)

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