Mongolian peacekeepers of the 8th Contingent trained at the Tavan Tolgoi Peace Operations Support Training Centre before deployment to protect the Special Court for Sierra Leone. UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe (d) Integrating a gender perspective90 To integrate a gender analysis into the identification and profiling of perpetrators, investigators should distance themselves from stereotypical beliefs which tend to focus predominantly on men as perpetrators. Men, women and others can commit human rights violations and crimes. Meanwhile, a gender analysis ensures that the power structures and dynamics that compelled each of them to participate in such conduct – the effects of which vary significantly according to one’s gender – are taken fully into account. 90 50 For further information see OHCHR Guidance Note: Integrating a Gender Perspective into Human Rights Investigations by Commissions of Inquiry and Fact-Finding Missions (forthcoming). The information here has been partly adapted from that text. See for example pp. 16-24 on investigation preparation. ATTRIBUTING INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY

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