Gender and Human Security in Post-Conflict Pakistan: Policy implications of local, gendered perceptions of security and development Ingrid Nyborg Noragric, UMB

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional Collaboration/Capacity Building  Dept. of International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric: Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) –Project Leader (Ingrid Nyborg), 1 PhD student, Research Assistant  Dept. of Development Studies, Comsats University (CIIT), Abbottabad, Pakistan –Project leader (Bahadar Nawab) 2 PhD students (1 male, 1 female)  Local partners: HUJRA (Swat), and Rozan (Islamabad)  Network building: informing and including relevant actors in Swat, KP, nationally, internationally (Embassy, UN Women’s Network) Gender and Human Security in Post-Conflict Pakistan 2

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Main Objective  To explore, using the concept of human security, how women and men's local experiences and understandings of insecurity, vulnerability and development relate to security and development discourses, policies and programs in post-conflict (post-disaster) situations. Gender and Human Security in Post-Conflict Pakistan 3

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Research Questions: –How do women, men and communities experience and cope with different kinds of insecurity (i.e. food, environmental, political, economic, health and personal) as they pursue their livelihoods in post-conflict contexts. –How do they perceive the role of state and non-state institutions in contributing to, preventing or mitigating different types of conflicts? –How do state and non-state institutions perceive their roles and responsibilities in securing women and men in local communities –What implications does a local understanding of human security have for integrating gender into security and development discourses, programs and policies? Gender and Human Security in Post-Conflict Pakistan 4

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Methodological challenges  Mainly qualitative –Question guides, focus group and key informant interviews and discussions  Variable security situation and periods of limited field access for foreigners requires flexible, innovative data collection approaches –Capacity-building of a broad base of local field staff and students in qualitative methods (conflict sensitivity) Gender and Human Security in Post-Conflict Pakistan 5 – Continuous series of analysis workshops in Swat, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Islamabad Findings?