Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / L. Olsson -- Chapter One. Introduction / L. Olsson -- Chapter Two. Creating A Framework / L. Olsson -- Chapter Three. Prologue / L. Olsson -- Chapter Four. Context Of Conflict: Timor-Leste 1975-1999 / L. Olsson -- Chapter Five. Peace Operations Intervene 1999-2006 / L. Olsson -- Chapter Six. The Framework At Work / L. Olsson -- Chapter Seven. The Contributions / L. Olsson -- List Of Interviews / L. Olsson -- Bibliography / L. Olsson -- Index / L. Olsson.

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This book expands the inquiry of United Nations peace operations to incorporate their effects on the equality of the host state. To achieve this, a mainstream-based analytical framework, additionally informed by suggestions from feminist research, is formulated and applied to the case of Timor-Leste. The study makes two contributions. Firstly, it enhances our ability to trace changes in the power balance between men and women by developing the concept of gender power-relations, especially introducing security equality (understood as the distribution of protection between men and women). Secondly, when the concept of gender power-relations had been developed to enable a more fine-grained analysis, the project proceeds to systematically explore effects of peace operations on these power-relations in the host state. The results shows the importance of considering the differences in situation of men and women in order both to avoid doing harm and to obtain a more equal peace.