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  -