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Designing a Trust Fund to Incentivize More Women Peacekeepers
Charles Kenny
July 25, 2017
A few months ago, I wrote a note calling for financial incentives to increase the number of women in (military) peacekeeping operations from its current level of about 4 percent closer to the UN Security Council target of about 20 percent. This post includes some more though...
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Safer Women, Safer World
Charles Kenny
June 14, 2017
Having more women peacekeepers is linked with large reductions in sexual misconduct by peacekeepers and more sustainable peace. The UN could potentially raise the proportion of women peacekeepers to 20 percent for around $75 million.A small multilateral trust fund would offer supplementary payments ...
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We Can Honour the Sacrifice of Our Troops by Deploying More Women Peacekeepers
Charles Kenny
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Tanvi Jaluka
May 30, 2017
It would take the UN 337 years to reach gender parity in peacekeeping operations. We have an idea about how to speed up this progress, but before that, it’s important to understand the very real and evidence-based reasons why more women peacekeepers would be a good thing.
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Foreign Military Financing Program Loans: The Good, the Bad, and the Potentially Very Ugly
John Hurley
May 30, 2017