Henri Myrttinen
Henri Myrttinen
Head of Gender
Afghanistan
Henri is Alert’s Head of Gender and Peacebuilding. Before joining Alert, he worked for numerous NGOs and research institutions, focusing mostly on Southeast Asia but also on Sub-Saharan Africa as well as Central and Eastern Europe. He holds a PhD in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, having written his thesis on masculinities and urban violence in Timor-Leste.
Henri has published extensively on issues of gender, peace and security, including co-editing the book “Sexed Pistols – The Gendered Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons”.
Blog Posts
Men and gender in the peace process: Are they worlds apart?
This blog was co-authored with Cate Buchanan and originally published in The Myanmar Times on 25 November 2015. Men are on the front lines of...
Posted on Wednesday 25 November 2015
In what little time I have spent so far in working on bringing in gender perspectives into project design, monitoring and evaluation (DME) with...
Posted on Wednesday 26 November 2014
'Monster' myth hides complexity of sexual violence in conflict
This week has seen a flurry of activity around an issue that for far too long has been forgotten, silenced or viewed as an inevitable consequence of...
Posted on Friday 13 June 2014
A new approach to gender in peacebuilding
This blog was first published on the Alliance for Peacebuilding forum, Building Peace, here. International Alert’s new report, Re-thinking...
Posted on Sunday 11 May 2014
Sexual violence has many victims, both male and female. We need to support them all.
This opinion piece was originally published in The Guardian. It's good Angelina Jolie is highlighting the horror of sex as a war weapon, but the...
Posted on Friday 4 April 2014
Publications
‘Measuring gender’ in peacebuilding
How does one measure something that is so central to peacebuilding as gender, but that often proves to be so elusive to efforts to quantify it beyond...
Posted on Tuesday 3 May 2016
Repensando identidades y poder
Este reporte, parte de un proyecto de investigación en género y construcción de la paz en cuatro países, examina el caso de Colombia, donde la...
Posted on Thursday 3 December 2015
The post-independence history of Burundi until 2005 has been largely marked by violent conflict and genocide, the numerous legacies of which continue...
Posted on Friday 28 November 2014
Re-assessing gender norms after conflict
This report examines the role of gender in peacebuilding in Nepal, which emerged from a ten-year civil war in 2006. The peace settlement saw the end...
Posted on Friday 28 November 2014
Gender, security and SSR in Lebanon
This report examines the role of gender in Lebanese security perceptions, Lebanese perceptions of security institutions, as well as gender...
Posted on Thursday 13 November 2014