ABSTRACT
In this chapter the authors argue that a meaningful gender analysis is essential to creating lasting urban safety, and that it should be a starting point for thinking about how urban safety and peacebuilding practice meet. Five primary entry points are identified: women’s urban safety and security, masculinities, gender-sensitive security sector reform, involving women in peacebuilding processes, and supporting women’s movements to politicize gender issues. The chapter asserts that much of the work on urban safety and peacebuilding remains gender blind, outlining the missed opportunities, decreased operational ineffectiveness, and existing exclusive and exclusionary power structures that are reinforced as a result. The chapter builds on a review of emerging good practice and recommendations for practical changes, and draws on research from Indonesia, Egypt, and Libya.
