a gender perspective calls attention to these differences and seeks to ensure that the security needs and capacities of women and girls circa of the population are not excluded acknowledging and responding to the different security and justice needs of women men boys and girls for instance women face a higher risk of domestic violence and men face a higher risk of gun violence only through fully understanding and responding to these contextspecific differences in security and justice needs can ssr initiatives increase security and justice equally for women men boys and girls ensuring the full and equal participation of men and women within security decisionmaking as well as within security system institutions