An increasingly central issue of IR academics is creating stability after war.
Particularly as differences grow larger and more complicated. Sometimes there are
Questions on how to restore post-conflict communities and how best to deter relapses into conflict need to be avoided. Peacekeeping missions are one of the ways in which the international community attempts to create lasting peace after war and the conventional peacekeeping role of the United Nations. Establishing peace after conflict is an increasingly central concern of IR analysts, especially as conflicts grow larger and more complex. Sometimes there are Questions on how to restore post-conflict communities and how best to deter relapses into conflict need to be avoided. Peacekeeping missions are one manner in which the international community tries to maintain lasting peace after war and the conventional peacekeeping position of the United Nations.
This change is aimed at promoting peacekeeping operations, undertaking a wide variety of activities, such as disarming fighters, facilitating peace negotiations between different parties of states and non-state groups, monitoring elections and building the ability of the rule of law in state institutions such as police and armed forces. However as feminist IR researchers have demonstrated, in the post-conflict era, abuse against women frequently occurs at rates proportionate to or even greater than during the conflict period. This involves harassment and sexual abuse, forced labor and domestic violence, as well as those that sell sex to relieve financial poverty. These forms of aggression are frequently obscured by the prevailing approach to maintaining peace. As compared to the “hard” or actual challenges of military defense, topics such as gender equality and domestic violence and human rights are called soft” issues. Thus this understanding of peace is one in which the welfare of women is not essential.
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