TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin
T1  - Gender at the crossroads
BT  - the role of gender in the UN’s global counterterrorism reform at the humanitarian-development-peace nexus
JF  - Critical studies on terrorism
N2  - Since the early 2000s, the United Nations (UN) global counterterrorism architecture has seen significant changes towards increased multilateralism, a focus on prevention, and inter-institutional coordination across the UN’s three pillars of work. Throughout this reform process, gender aspects have increasingly become presented as a “cross-cutting” theme. In this article, I investigate the role of gender in the UN’s counterterrorism reform process at the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, or “triple nexus”, from a feminist institutionalist perspective. I conduct a feminist discourse analysis of the counterterrorism discourses of three UN entities, which represent the different UN pillars of peace and security (DPO), development (UNDP), and humanitarianism and human rights (OHCHR). The article examines the role of gender in the inter-institutional reform process by focusing on the changes, overlaps and differences in the discursive production of gender in the entities’ counterterrorism agendas over time and in two recent UN counterterrorism conferences. I find that gendered dynamics of nested newness and institutional layering have played an essential role both as a justification for the involvement of individual entities in counterterrorism and as a vehicle for inter-institutional cooperation and struggle for discursive power.
KW  - gender
KW  - institutions
KW  - feminism
KW  - United Nations
KW  - counterterrorism
KW  - triple nexus
KW  - discourse
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2021.1969061
SN  - 1753-9153
SN  - 1753-9161
VL  - 15
IS  - 3
SP  - 533
EP  - 558
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - London [u.a.]
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin
T1  - Gender in the United Nations’ agenda on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism
JF  - International feminist journal of politics
N2  - The United Nations (UN) policy agenda on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) promotes a “holistic” approach to counterterrorism, which includes elements traditionally found in security and development programs. Advocates of the agenda increasingly emphasize the importance of gender mainstreaming for counterterrorism goals. In this article, I scrutinize the merging of the goals of gender equality, security, and development into a global agenda for counterterrorism. A critical feminist discourse-analytical reading of gender representations in P/CVE shows how problematic imageries of women as victims, economic entrepreneurs, and peacemakers from both the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the Women, Peace and Security agenda are reproduced in core UN documents advocating for a “holistic” P/CVE approach. By highlighting the tensions that are produced by efforts to merge the different gender discourses across the UN’s security and development institutions, the article underlines the relevance of considering the particular position of P/CVE at the security–development nexus for further gender-sensitive analysis and policies of counterterrorism.
KW  - Counterterrorism
KW  - gender mainstreaming
KW  - security–development nexus
KW  - discourse
KW  - United Nations
KW  - feminism
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2020.1827967
SN  - 1461-6742
SN  - 1468-4470
VL  - 22
IS  - 5
SP  - 720
EP  - 741
PB  - Taylor & Francis
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Brabandt, Heike
A1  - Locher, Birgit
A1  - Prügl, Elisabeth
T1  - Normen, Gender und Politikwandel : internationale Beziehungen aus der Geschlechterperspektive ; eine Einführung
N2  - This introduction provides an overview of feminist approaches to International Relations. The authors compare the Anglo-American debate with the Germanspeaking discussion in order to reveal similarities and differences. They identify three particular areas of research that characterize the German-speaking feminist debate in International Relations: (1) works evolving out of peace studies; (2) research on globalization and international economic institutions; (3) studies focusing on women’s movements together with most current works centering around international norms. They argue that feminist approaches to norms constitute a particularly promising research area which provides new "tools" to account for international, regional or domestic policy-change. Gender-sensitive research on norms also allows to address ethical questions that are vital for feminist understandings of science. Moreover, this new focus on norms enables bridge-building between feminism and the mainstream.
KW  - gender
KW  - norms
KW  - International Relations
KW  - NGOs
KW  - feminism
Y1  - 2002
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9517
ER  -