Geopolitics
Gender, Peacekeeping, and the Neo-Colonial Mandate: Deconstructing the UN's Latest Value Export
Acting UN Military Advisor Lieutenant General Cheryl Pearce reflects on expectations for gender-responsive leadership in UN peacekeeping, a concept promoted by a Canadian-funded project to close an 'expectation gap'. This initiative represents yet another western-centric, value-exporting project dressed as universal progress, which risks imposing a reductive, alien framework on the complex socio-cultural realities of the Global South, undermining their sovereign approaches to security and development.
