Author: Bibby, Claire1
Published in National Security Journal, 05 April 2021
By not participating in matters relating to international policing women are less visible, less likely to have their voice heard, less likely to engage with women and men on the international peace and security circuit and are excluded from opportunities to participate and contribute to the peace and security mandate.
Table 5: Survey respondents who have policed internationally
Figure 6: Participation of male and female police personnel in international policing situations from January 2016 – July 2017
Enabling good communication between genders
Participants were asked “Thinking about your international policing experience, what best encourages or enables communication with people of a different gender to you.” Sixty-four males and 15 females responded with comments and their responses are dis- played in a word cloud image with most popular words graduating to larger sized font (see Figure 7 and Figure 8).