Sex in Peace Operations

Gabrielle Simm is a Visiting Fellow at the Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University. She has previously worked as a government lawyer advising on international law in the Australian Attorney-General's Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and as a diplomat in Southeast Asia. She has also worked as a refugee lawyer in Melbourne.

• 1. Introduction; 2. A feminist framework for regulating peace operations; 3. Law as regulation; 4. Above the law? Sex trafficking by private military contractors in Bosnia; 5. Aid for sex: humanitarian NGO workers in West Africa; 6. 'Zero compliance with zero tolerance': UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; 7. Conclusion.

'… this is an outstanding work that examines international law on peacekeeping sex from a regulatory perspective, and underlines the importance of considering all aspects of sex between local people and private military contractors in peace support operations. It stands as a unique scholarly reference on the subject and will serve as an essential tool to academics, students of peacekeeping studies and feminist legal scholars both immediately and for several years to come.' Hilmi M. Zawati, International Peacekeeping