From Female Engagement Teams to Engagement Platoons: The Evolution of Gendered Community Engagement in UN Peace Operations

The military components of UN peacekeeping operations have used engagement teams (ETs) to conduct community engagement activities since at least 2015. While ETs were initially ad hoc initiatives, the UN has recently begun to institutionalize gendered community engagement, including through an ongoing shift from ETs to engagement platoons (EPs). Yet despite a general recognition that

Advancing a Children, Peace and Security Agenda for the Future of UN Peacekeeping

Advancing a Children, Peace and Security Agenda for the Future of UN Peacekeeping

Challenges to Sustainably Increasing Women's Participation and Gender Equality in Peacekeeping

Making History: Major Winnet Zharare becomes the first Zimbabwean peacekeeper to receive the United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award, by UN Peacekeeping

Women in Peacekeeping: A Key to Peace

From Female Engagement Teams to Engagement Platoons: The Evolution of Gendered Community Engagement in UN Peace Operations

Action for Peacekeeping: Engagement Platoons champion gender parity in peacekeeping and beyond

Action for Peacekeeping: Engagement Platoons champion gender parity in peacekeeping and beyond

2021 International Peace Institute

The U.S. Military Academy and the Africa Military Education Program

Gabriella Ginsberg-Fletcher - DDR Officer- Department of Peace Operations - United Nations

Ghanaian peacekeeper selected as United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year 2022