Getting it Right? A Gender Approach to UNMIK Administration in Kosovo

This report aims to look at the international community's efforts, or in some cases lack of effort, to include women in its reconstruction and
institutional building endeavours in Kosovo1 after the armed conflict in 1998–1999. A number of reports have recently underlined the importance
of involving women in peace negotiations and post-conflict reconstruction work.2 Moreover, the United Nations has been very active in stressing the importance of involving women in all its activities, in particular peacekeeping.3Kosovo is a particularly interesting subject for such a study as it is currently the United Nations administration (UNMIK) itself that is replacing the “state” apparatus.