ABSTRACT
The international statebuilding agenda conceptualizes statebuilding as a deeply political process, concerned with the renegotiation of state-society relations and the allocation of power and resources. Despite this, there has been surprisingly little exploration of how statebuilding affects the gendered allocation of power and resources, or men and women’s differing relationships to the state. There has also been little analysis of how international actors can integrate gender into statebuilding support, although this issue is moving up donors’ agendas.1
