USIP Report: The Role of Women in Reconstruction and Stabilization

Author: Camille Pampell Conaway
Date: August 2006

This report is based on a series of consultations under the auspices of the Working Group on the Role of Women in Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations, chaired by Harriet Hentges, former United States Institute of Peace executive vice president, and Harriet C. Babbitt, senior vice president of the Hunt Alternatives Fund. The Working Group on the Role of Women is part of the Institute’s Filling the Gaps series of working groups, which aims to systematically address the causes of failure in specific areas in stabilization and reconstruction operations and to generate policy options for those in the U.S. government and elsewhere who lead and staff these missions. Filling the Gaps is directed by Daniel Serwer and managed by Beth Cole DeGrasse of the Institute. More than fifty experts from the U.S. government, and international and nongovernmental  organizations were convened in 2004 and 2005 to identify best practices and select priority  recommendations on the role of women in stabilization and reconstruction.

The author of the report is Camille Pampell Conaway, a researcher, writer, and expert on women, peace, and security.

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