Author: Cecilie Fleming

Cecilie Fleming is a Senior Adviser at the Norwegian National Emergency Planning College, and a former military researcher at the Norwegian Defence International Centre.

Women, Peace and Security?

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The Norwegian government had lofty ambitions to implement UN Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security in Faryab Province in Afghanistan. However, attempts to realise these ambitions were half-hearted. The role of the gender adviser became a political alibi for the Norwegian Provincial Reconstruction Team’s haphazard efforts to implement the resolution. The UN Security Council… Read more »