Kvinna, mamma och offer: En feministisk- och genusteoretisk innehållsanalys av FNSR resolution 1325(2000)

Abstract

In the year 2000 the United Nations Security Council [UNSC] created resolution 1325 to implement gender within processes of peacebuilding and to increase women’s security and equality. Nevertheless, there is a global problem concerning the UN peacekeeper’s sexual exploitation and abuse towards local women and/or children during peace operations. Using a qualitative thematic content analysis of UNSC resolution 1325(2000) this essay examines how women are portrayed within the resolution and investigates whether its formulation is deficient. Using the theoretical framework of subject-positions and social constructivism I argue that women are positioned within resolution 1325 only as mothers, victims, and in need of special care which creates and supports a reality where women continue to be subordinated and taken advantage of by men. Furthermore, in order to gain more knowledge of how these subject-positions may work in practice and to conceptualize my theoretical analysis I relate my reasoning to the empirical example of the work of gender mainstreaming in the UN operation MONUC/MONUSCO in DR Congo. In this associated discussion I argue the inferior subject-positioning of women as an imaginable factor for the deficiency of the full implementation of gender in practice and for the continued events of abuse by UN peacekeepers in DR Congo. The paper, with the exception of this abstract, is written in Swedish.