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Kathleen M. Jennings

Kathleen M. Jennings is a researcher at the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies. Her current research focuses on UN peacekeeping, gender, and the political economy of peacekeeping and peacebuilding (“peacekeeping economies”). She has also written extensively on the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme in Liberia, and on issues of sexual exploitation and abuse in UN peacekeeping. Jennings previously worked at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC. She holds degrees from Stanford and Oxford.

Research areas: Women, peace and security

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Women’s participation in UN peacekeeping operations: agents of change or stranded symbols?: Kathleen M. Jennings 1 September 2011
This report reviews the existing evidence relating to the impact of uniformed women peacekeepers – i.e. military or police – in UN peacekeeping operations (PKOs). First, it lists the arguments most commonly used to advocate for increasing women’s participation in PKOs. The central focus of these arguments is that increasing the number... more

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