Gender Awareness in Research on Small Arms and Light Weapons

Zusammenfassung/Résumé ______________________ 1 1 Preface __________________________________________ 2 2 Introduction ______________________________________ 3 2.1 Methodological Challenges 3 2.2 Gender Difference in the Formation of Identities: Some Findings 4 2.3 Key Findings in Research on Gender Perspectives on SALW 5 2.4 Key Policy Recommendations Related to Gender Perspectives on SALW 6 3 Gender Perspectives on Small Arms and Light Weapons Collection Programs _______________________________ 8 3.1 Just a Matter of Practicality: Women’s Usefulness in Weapons Collection Programs 8 3.2 Gender Perspectives on SALW Proliferation in the Karamoja Sub-Region 9 3.3 SALW and Gender in Macedonia 10 4 Gender Perspectives on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration ________________________________ 12 4.1 Gender Perspectives on SALW in East Timor 12 4.2 Gender Perspectives on SALW in Afghanistan 13 4.3 Gender, Small Arms and the Northern Ireland Conflict 15 4.4 Small Arms and Sexualand Gender-based Violence Against Women in Mozambique 15 4.5 Girls and Armed Conflict in Sierra Leone: Victimization, Participation, and Resistance 17 5 Gender Perspectives on Small Arms and Light Weapons in Society _______________________________________ 19 5.1 Gender and Attitudes to Small Arms: Implications for Action 19 5.2 Securing Private Spaces: Gendered Labor, Violence and National Transformation 20 5.3 A Growing Twilight Zone: Private Policing Companies in Israel Endangering Women through Accelerated Militarization and Small Arms Proliferation 22 5.4 The Role of Women in Gun Violence in Rio de Janeiro 23 5.5 Small Arms, Gender, and Oral Poetry in Somalia 25 5.6 SALW and Gender in Papua New Guinea 27 5.7 SALW and Gender in Nepal 28