Aggestam Karin, Eitrem Holmgren Linda
Department of Political Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
J Int Relat Dev (Ljubl). 2022;25(4):880-901. doi: 10.1057/s41268-022-00269-9. Epub 2022 Jul 29.
Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender-resilience nexus in theory and analyses global trends and variation in peacebuilding policy and practice. It advances an analytical framework based on three central pillars of peacebuilding: process, outcome, and expertise. A comprehensive analysis of 49 international peacebuilding handbooks, produced by leading international organisations for policymakers and practitioners in the field, is conducted. The results show how the integration of the gender-resilience nexus signals new ways of understanding conflict dynamics and peacebuilding. Yet, gender peace expertise is 'thin' with regard to policies and practices of resilient conflict transformation. By way of conclusion, we suggest three directions to be taken in research to advance and refine the gender-resilience nexus. First, the politics and contestation of peacebuilding need to be problematised and explored further. Second, the understanding of resilience in peacebuilding needs to shift emphasis from conflict management to conflict transformation. Third, the positionality of peacebuilding actors and local contexts need to be probed further.
恢复力和性别已成为建设和平中表达复兴的新流行语。本文从理论上剖析了性别与恢复力的联系，并分析了建设和平政策与实践中的全球趋势及差异。它提出了一个基于建设和平三个核心支柱的分析框架：过程、结果和专业知识。对主要国际组织为该领域的政策制定者和从业者编写的49本国际建设和平手册进行了全面分析。结果表明，性别与恢复力联系的整合标志着理解冲突动态和建设和平的新方式。然而，在恢复性冲突转化的政策和实践方面，性别和平专业知识“薄弱”。作为结论，我们提出了研究中推进和完善性别与恢复力联系的三个方向。第一，建设和平的政治和争议需要进一步被问题化和探索。第二，建设和平中对恢复力的理解需要将重点从冲突管理转向冲突转化。第三，需要进一步探究建设和平行为体的定位和当地背景。
