United Nations Bureaucracies and Knowledge Creation on Women, Peacebuilding, and Natural Resources (chapter in "Handbook on Gender and Security")
Publisher: Handbook on Gender and Security
Author(s): Natalia Dalmer
Date: 2025
Topics: Gender, Peace and Security Operations, Renewable Resources
This chapter examines the concerted efforts of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women (UN Women), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) to advance knowledge on the intersection of gender, peacebuilding and the environment. Conceptualizing these international bureaucracies as open systems that relate to a multidimensional organizational environment, the discussion explores how together they have created knowledge on how women's engagement in natural resource management in conflict-affected regions benefits peacebuilding outcomes more generally. It also addresses the external challenges that they faced along the way. In doing so, it shows how international agencies help establish the complex and not readily visible linkages between these seemingly distinct concerns. In a more general sense, this chapter aims to contribute to a better understanding of international knowledge development on gender and (in)securities as a broader theme of this Handbook.