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The Revolution is Female: Myanmar’s Women Fighting Against Min Aung Hlaing’s Junta | Australian Institute of International Affairs

��SM�� — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 14:46:49 +0000

June 7th, 2023 | In this article, Isabella Aung shows how civil activism in Myanmar against the military junta is being increasingly led by women. Despite overwhelming odds, they are beginning to have impact. Southeast Asia has been facing a significant authoritarian turn in the past decade. This political trend puts women activists at risk for the simple reason that autocrats fear women and have traditionally taken extreme measures to eliminate feminist challenges to authoritarian power.

Iconic war images and the myth of the ‘good American Soldier’ | Media, War & Conflict

��SM�� — Tue, 23 May 2023 19:28:03 +0000

May 23rd, 2023 | This article explores the ‘good American soldier’ as a gendered ideal type shaped by, and reproductive of, myths about American military success, romantic notions of small-town working and white America, notions of heterosexual virility, and ableist stereotypes about personal resilience.

Seeking Inclusion, Breeding Exclusion? The UN’s WPS Agenda and the Syrian Peace Talks | International Negotiation

��SM�� — Fri, 19 May 2023 16:37:11 +0000

May 19th, 2023 | In this article, Dr. Marie-Joëlle Zahar analyzes the Women’s Advisory Board (WAB) to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, a unique mechanism designed to include women in peace processes. Has the WAB fulfilled its objective? Based on ethnographic material, and primary and secondary sources, we argue that the WAB fostered a sentiment of exclusion among some of its members and of the broader spectrum of Syrian women’s organizations. The article further suggests that the WAB failed to meaningfully include women in the Syria peace process.

Women and Peace Negotiations: Looking Forward, Looking Back | International Negotiation

��SM�� — Tue, 09 May 2023 14:12:33 +0000

May 9th, 2023 | Despite the global norm favoring women’s participation in peace negotiations, women continue to face constraints in accessing, influencing, and benefitting from peace settlements.

Neither the Global North nor the Global South: locating the post-Soviet space in/out of the Women, Peace and Security agenda | International Feminist Journal of Politics

��SM�� — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:00:53 +0000

April 25, 2023 | In this article, Bénédicte Santoire argues that the post-Soviet space has been erased from the WPS literature because – as elsewhere in the social sciences – the end of the Cold War rearranged the East/West geopolitical imaginaries into a Global North/Global South divide. Consequently, this epistemic gap creates an incomplete picture of the WPS agenda as a whole.

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Disrupting the Saviour Politics in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Global South: Grassroots Women Creating Gender Norms in Nepal and Sri Lanka | Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

��SM�� — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:03:43 +0000

April 5th, 2023 | Dr. Luna KC and Dr. Chrystal Whetstone argue that grassroots Global South women, despite their marginalisation, are global gender norms actors and deserve greater decision-making power on the local and international stages. They show how the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and the broader WPS agenda focus on global gender norms construction in Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Building National Identity through Schooling and Language Policies: Burmanization as a Diversity Management Strategy | Student Strategy & Security Journal

��SM�� — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:52:29 +0000

March 23rd, 2023 | In this article, Isabella Aung discusses the importance of policy making around languageand education in building a common national identity, using the case study of Myanmar from 1962 to the present day. By comparing the Burmanization process by different Burmese governments to French nation-building through schools and schooling in the 1800s, this paper argues that the successful sustenance of diverse states draws from effective long-term diversity managementthrough education reforms.

Deploying Feminism The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations | Oxford University Press

��SM�� — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:41:17 +0000

February 16th, 2023 | In this book, Stéfanie Von Hlatky gives a detailed account, based on fieldwork and interviews, of how Women, Peace and Security norms are militarized and put at the service of operational effectiveness.

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Broken Pathways to Politics: Clearing a Path from Grassroots to Representative Politics | Journal of Women, Politics & Policy

��SM�� — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:45:29 +0000

February 10, 2023 | This article seeks to explain why so few women make the journey from social activism and community work to standing for election. Comparative research in Indonesia and Sri Lanka reveals four operations critical to mending the broken pathway to politics for non-elite women. Transference entails the recognition and valuing of women’s preexisting skills, knowledge and experiences gained through grassroots activity for the political field. Amplification is required of women’s symbolic capital so that it impresses upon a larger public.

Shifting Authority: Indigenous Law-Making and State Governance | Journal of International Studies

��SM�� — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:03:43 +0000

February 7, 2023 | In this article, Leah Sarson examines the context of Canada’s extractive sector, where I question how and when Indigenous laws prevail over state laws to challenge colonial authority and reassert Indigenous self-determination. By highlighting new sites of authority and resistance, this work underscores the transformative possibilities of Indigenous politics.

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Women, Peace and Security governance in the Asia - Pacific: a multi-sclar field of discourse and practice | International Affairs

��SM�� — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:03:58 +0000

February 1st, 2023 | The UN's Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is now over 20 years old, yet much of the Asia–Pacific has been slow to engage in formalized WPS work at national and regional scales. In this article, Stéphanie Martel, Jennifer Mustafa, and Sarah E. Sharma examine the relatively recent development of official WPS national action plans by Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Timor-Leste, alongside mounting collective efforts towards WPS governance by regional organizations like ASEAN.

Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence, Hate Speech, and Terrorism: A Risk Assessment on the Rise of the Incel Rebellion in Canada | Violence Against Women Journal

��SM�� — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:33:59 +0000

December 7th, 2022 | In this article, Esli Chan reveals that Canadian violent extremism frameworks minimize online GBV as a form of extremism. GBV, which extends from online to offline realities, is not captured in theoretical frameworks for terrorism and hate speech.

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From Peace Talks to Parliaments: The Microprocesses Propelling Women into Formal Politics Following War - International Negotiation

��SM�� — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:18:08 +0000

October 14th, 2022 | In this article, Miriam Anderson and Marc Y. Valade find that women’s civil society built social networks reliant on cross-ethnic collaboration and the support of international actors during the peace negotiations. With the aid of those networks, they successfully entered formal politics and passed pro-women legislation, where they developed cross-party alliances and maintained close relationships with civil society, increasing their effectiveness in parliament.

A feminist opening of resilience: Elizabeth Grosz, Liberian Peace Huts and IR critiques | Journal of International Relations and Development

��SM�� — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 19:49:10 +0000

August 17th, 2022 | In this article, Dr. Maria Martin de Almagro and Dr. Pol Bargués identify that resilience has often been reduced to an egalitarian project—where mechanical policies and schemes are deployed to ameliorate the conditions of women, enhance their participation in decision-making and pursue the equality between women and men—to advance in sustaining peace.

Résolution 1325 et gouvernance globale : L’agenda Femmes, Paix et Sécurité (FPS) en tant que norme internationale | Etudes internationales

��SM�� — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:33:12 +0000

Le 11 août 2022 | Cet essai de Bénédicte Santoire interroge, après une revue littéraire de trois grands ouvrages portant sur l'agenda Femmes, Paix, et Sécurité, l'applicabilité de cet agenda en adoptant un point de vue constructiviste et féministe critique, relève les diverses interprétations qui lui sont appliquées, et met en exergue les critiques et les défis à venir pour la prochaine décennie.

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Women, Peace, and Security and Increasing Gendered Risk in the Era of COVID-19: Insights from Nepal and Sri Lanka | Global Studies Quarterly

��SM�� — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 17:39:48 +0000

August 10th, 2022 | In this article, Luna KC and Crystal Whetstone analyze the effects of COVID-19 on women and girls. It examines policy responses to the pandemic crisis and its implications on the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda in postwar Nepal and Sri Lanka.

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Rethinking women, peace, and security through the localization of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 & National Action Plans: A study of Nepal and Sri Lanka | Women's Studies International Forum

��SM�� — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:35:00 +0000

August 1st, 2022 | In this article, Luna KC and Crystal Whetstone examine the localization of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (hereafter 1325) on women, peace, and security (WPS) and its successor resolutions, which call for equal participation of women in conflict resolution, peace negotiations, and post-conflict development.

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Gendered experience of disaster: Women’s account of evacuation, relief and recovery in Nepal | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

��SM�� — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 14:07:25 +0000

February 4, 2022 | This paper presents an in-depth analysis of women earthquake survivors during and after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal by looking at women’s experience of evacuation, relief, and recovery. In particular, it examines how gender intersects with socio-economic factors such as citizenship, caste, ethnicity, income, debt, and location to shape women’s disaster experience.

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Women's Resistance in Violent Settings: Infrapolitical Strategies in Brazil and Colombia | Re-writing Women as Victims: From Theory to Practice

��SM�� — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:11:22 +0000

2019 | By Anne-Marie Veillette and Priscyll Anctil Avoine, this chapter emerges from the two fieldwork investigations conducted in Brazil (2016) and Colombia (2015). The first one, carried out in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, aims to understand and analyse the nature and the impacts of police violence, as well as resistance emerging in that context, based on women’s testimonies.

Indian Federalism and Violence Against Women: A Complex Web of Power Relationships | Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism

��SM�� — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:03:07 +0000

June 2020 | Feminist scholars, including Network member Priscyll Anctil Avoine, debate the impact of state architectures on women’s movements, partisan organizations and policy advocacy using innovative discursive, institutional and intersectional approaches.

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Disembodying Combat: Female Combatants' Political Reintegration in Nepal and Colombia | University of Waterloo

��SM�� — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:56:06 +0000

June 2021 | Network member Priscyll Anctil Avoine focuses on the political issues underlying the particular place of women in insurgent combat and what it means to “re-embody” civilian society with a temporal glance at the 15-year transition in Nepal and the 5-year peace process in Colombia.

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Muzna Dureid on Canada’s Response to Climate Refugees | The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network

��SM�� — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:07:44 +0000

November 24, 2021 | RN-WPS Youth Advisory Board member Muzna Dureid explains why Canada should modernize its immigration policy to respond to people displaced by climate change.

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Engaging girls and women with disabilities in the global South: Beyond cultural and geopolitical generalizations | Disability and the Global South

��SM�� — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:08:34 +0000

March 13, 2021 | Xuan Thuy Nguyen and Deborah Stienstra argue for recognizing the lingering impacts of colonialism and imperialism in producing disability and impairment in the South, while suggesting new ways of engaging with disabled girls and women through the use of inclusive, decolonial, and participatory methods.

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Feminist Reflections on Discourses of (Power) + (Sharing) in Power-Sharing Theory | International Political Science Review

��SM�� — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:57:20 +0000

October 24, 2019 | Written by Dr. Siobhan Byrne, the objective of this article is to demonstrate how feminist approaches can provide a new language of both power and sharing to illuminate pathways through the ‘exclusion amid inclusion’ dilemma in power-sharing theory.

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The endurance of women’s mobilization during “patriarchal backlash”: a case from Colombia’s reconfiguring armed conflict | International Feminist Journal of Politics

��SM�� — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:51:30 +0000

March 29, 2021 | Written by Dr. Julia Zulver, this article focuses on the Alianza de Mujeres Tejedoras de Vida, an association of women in Putumayo who mobilized for peace and women’s rights during Colombia’s armed conflict.

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Asociación de Mujeres Afro por la Paz: Feminism with the Body and Face of a Woman | AFROMUPAZ

��SM�� — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:41:16 +0000

July 2, 2021 | Dr. Julia Zulver writes about The Asociación de Mujeres Afro por la Paz (Association of Afro Women for Peace—AFROMUPAZ), an organization of displaced Afro-Colombian women now based in Bogotá. The organization represents a differential brand of feminism in the face of historical and ongoing violence and provides community, support, and employment opportunities for dozens of women and their families.

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From Reproductive Labor to Reproductive Violence: Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace and Its Window of Opportunity | Journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

��SM�� — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:33:49 +0000

November 24, 2020 | Through this conversation between anthropology, law, and feminism, Tatiana Sanchez Parra and Teresa Fernandez-Paredes hope to shed some light on the opportunities and challenges of addressing a more comprehensive notion of reproductive violence in contexts of war and political transitions.

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Global cities will be epicentres of gendered climate insecurity: why we must foreground women in urban climate security policy | The London School of Economics and Political Science

��SM�� — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 21:46:48 +0000

November 3, 2021 | As the 26^th UN Climate Change Conference takes place in Glasgow, Maryruth Belsey Priebe and Tevvi Bullock ask is there adequate attention to gender in urban-climate-conflict discussions, pledges, and policies? Their blog is evidence of why the gender-climate-security nexus is critical for countries to be better prepared to deal with climate change.

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Children ‘born of war’: a role for fathers? | International Affairs

��SM�� — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 14:41:09 +0000

March 1, 2020 | Children ‘born of war’ are increasingly recognized as a particular victim group in relevant international policy frameworks. Previous scholarship has primarily documented the challenges faced by their mothers as caregivers and as victims of wartime sexual violence, while a discussion on fathers to children ‘born of war’ is notably absent. Based on research in northern Uganda between 2016 and 2019, this article explores how some fathers seek to maintain a relationship with children born as the result of ‘forced marriage’ and assume partial or full responsibility for their wel

Is Canada’s Foreign Policy Really Feminist? Analysis and Recommendations | Network for Strategic Analysis (NSA)

��SM�� — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:22:51 +0000

September 23, 2021 | What does a feminist foreign policy entail within the Canadian context, and how do we ensure that it observes a gender based analytical approach? This policy report proposes concrete recommendations toward this goal, it also encourages foreign and defence actors to reflect on fundamental gender equality principles and considerations that get lost in the face of results-oriented policy approaches aimed for the short term.

The rise of the alt-right in Canada | Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women

��SM�� — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:17:49 +0000

August, 2021 | Co-written by our postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Luna K.C., this paper uses a critical and intersectional feminist lens to uncover the roots of the alt-right movement in Canada and how it continues to function and proliferate. Read on to understand how these forces operate in a Canadian context and how its inherent racism and misogyny can be countered.

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