ABSTRACT
In this book have demonstrated how the discourse of gender security is intimately linked to personal-political imaginations of conflict and post-conflict. The book shows why the connection between personal-political imaginations and gender security matters, and why it is worth paying attention to these relationships. This is especially apparent when people start talking about means of achieving gender security, as the remainder of the book demonstrates. In other words, exploring these policy debates demonstrate ways in which gender security discourse can be politically translated, and enables us to address questions about the political impacts of different configurations of gender security. Contrasting the feminist-pacifist agenda and the development of the domestic violence debate to include small arms and light weapons (SALW) concerns reveals varying responses to UNSCR 1325, highlighting the effects that personal-political imaginations of conflict and post-conflict have upon the logics of a specific discourse of gender security.
