Understanding Gender, Conflict and the Environment

Alexandria Reid, ‘Understanding gender, conflict and the environment’, Toxic Remnants of War, June 2017.

A hard-fought reference to gender and the environment made the final version of the UNEA-2’s resolution in 2017: ‘further recognising specific negative effects of environmental degradation on women and the need to apply a gender perspective with respect to the environment and armed conflicts’.

But to effectively incorporate this gender perspective in future policy, we need to do more than just recognise the effects. Instead we need to fully understand and clarify what gendered approaches mean in the context of conflict, peacebuilding and the environment.

Commissioned by the NGO the Toxic Remnants of War.

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