CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- PART I SETTING THE STAGE -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 What we need to know -- 1.2 Why Timor-Leste? -- 1.3 Overview of study -- 2. Creating a Framework -- 2.1 Positioning the basic ideas -- 2.2 Understanding gender power-relations -- Gender power-relations -- Dimensions of gender power-relations -- 2.3 What causes change in gender power-relations? -- The context of armed confl ict -- A peace operation intervenes -- 2.4 Conclusions -- PART II INTO THE FIELD IN TIMOR-LESTE -- 3. Prologue -- 3.1 Focus of description -- Sources and information -- 3.2 Overview of time-period and operations -- 4. Context of confl ict: Timor-Leste 1975-1999 -- 4.1 Timorese parties and gender power-relations -- 4.2 Confl ict and gender power-relations -- 4.3 The Timor-Leste confl ict and the UN -- 5. Peace operations intervene 1999-2006 -- 5.1 The mandate and structure of UN operations -- Security versus politics? UNTAET peacekeeping and peacebuilding -- 5.2 UN operation policy and Timorese security -- Establishing security through military means -- Handling the old and new military of Timor-Leste -- Creating internal security -- Creating insecurity?-The behavior of UN peace-operation personnel -- 5.3 UN operation policy and Timorese politics -- Administrating a state -- Organizing democratic elections -- Building government -- PART III PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER -- 6. The framework at work -- 6.1 Advancing gender power-relations -- Political Equality -- Security Equality -- Conclusions -- 6.2 How peace operations affect gender power-relations -- Awareness in implementation -- Handling local military -- Local cooperation -- Personnel behavior -- Gender-balanced composition -- Operation leadership -- Conclusions -- 6.3 Are these effects unique for Timor-Leste? -- 7. The contributions.

7.1 What we have learned? -- 7.2 Where do we go from here? -- List of interviews -- Bibliography.