Security Sector Reform and Gender: Call for Authors and Reviewers

The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the United Nations Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) are initiating a joint project entitled Gender and Security Sector Reform: Creating Knowledge and Building Capacities. The project will:

1) Commission new research to produce twelve gender and security sector reform tools. From these tools, shorter briefs will be produced. The full set of resources will be developed into a 'Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit'.

2) Hold e-discussions, an expert workshop and a launch/workshop to review, promote and operationalise the Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit, and to strengthen the capacity of project beneficiaries to integrate gender in security sector reform policy and processes.

We are looking for potential authors and expert reviewers by 16 April 2007 on these topics:

Introductory Tools

1.      Introduction to Gender and SSR

2.      Police Reform and Gender

3.      Defence Reform and Gender

4.      Justice Reform and Gender

5.      Penal Reform and Gender

6.      Border Management and Gender

7.      Parliamentarians: Security Sector Oversight and Gender

8.      National Security Policy and Gender

9.      Civil Society Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender

10.     Privatisation of Security and Gender

Cross-Cutting Tools

11.     Gendering SSR Assessments: indicators, monitoring and evaluation
12.     Gender Training for Security Sector Personnel: lessons learned and good practices

Please contact Kristin Valasek, DCAF: k.valasek@dcaf.ch