Women, Peace, and Security and Increasing Gendered Risk in the Era of COVID-19: Insights from Nepal and Sri Lanka | Global Studies Quarterly
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
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鈥檚 account of evacuation, relief and recovery in Nepal | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
February 4, 2022 |聽This paper presents an in-depth analysis of women earthquake survivors during and after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal by looking at women鈥檚 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鈥檚 disaster experience.
Women's Resistance in Violent Settings: Infrapolitical Strategies in Brazil and Colombia | Re-writing Women as Victims: From Theory to Practice
2019 |聽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鈥檚 testimonies.
Indian Federalism and Violence Against Women: A Complex Web of Power Relationships | Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism
June 2020聽| Feminist scholars, including Network member聽Priscyll聽Anctil Avoine,聽debate the impact of state architectures on women鈥檚 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
June 2021聽| Network member Priscyll聽Anctil Avoine focuses on the political issues underlying the particular place of women in insurgent combat and what it means to 鈥渞e-embody鈥� 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鈥檚 Response to Climate Refugees | The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network
November 24, 2021聽| RN-WPS Youth Advisory Board member Muzna Dureid explains聽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
March 13, 2021聽| Xuan Thuy Nguyen and Deborah Stienstra聽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
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 鈥榚xclusion amid inclusion鈥� dilemma in power-sharing theory.
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The endurance of women鈥檚 mobilization during 鈥減atriarchal backlash鈥�: a case from Colombia鈥檚 reconfiguring armed conflict | International Feminist Journal of Politics
March 29, 2021聽| 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鈥檚 rights during Colombia鈥檚 armed conflict.聽
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Asociaci贸n de Mujeres Afro por la Paz: Feminism with the Body and Face of a Woman | AFROMUPAZ
July 2, 2021聽| Dr. Julia Zulver writes about聽The Asociaci贸n de Mujeres Afro por la Paz (Association of Afro Women for Peace鈥擜FROMUPAZ), an organization of displaced Afro-Colombian women now based in Bogot谩. 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.
From Reproductive Labor to Reproductive Violence: Colombia鈥檚 Special Jurisdiction for Peace and Its Window of Opportunity | Journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
November 24, 2020 |聽Through this conversation between anthropology, law, and feminism, Tatiana Sanchez Parra and Teresa Fernandez-Paredes聽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.
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
November 3, 2021聽|聽As the 26th聽UN Climate Change Conference takes place in Glasgow,聽Maryruth Belsey Priebe聽and聽Tevvi Bullock聽ask is there adequate attention to gender in urban-climate-conflict discussions, pledges, and policies?聽Their blog is evidence聽of聽why the gender-climate-security nexus is critical for countries to be better prepared to deal with climate change.
Children 鈥榖orn of war鈥�: a role for fathers? | International Affairs
March 1, 2020聽| Children 鈥榖orn of war鈥� are increasingly recognized as a particular victim group in relevant international policy frameworks.聽Previous scholarship has primarily documented the challenges faced by their mothers as caregivers and as victims of wartime sexual violence, while a聽discussion on fathers to children 鈥榖orn of war鈥� is notably聽absent.聽Based on research in northern Uganda between 2016 and 2019, this article聽explores how some fathers seek to mai
Is Canada鈥檚 Foreign Policy Really Feminist? Analysis and Recommendations | Network for Strategic Analysis (NSA)
September 23, 2021 | What does a feminist foreign policy entail聽within the Canadian context, and how do we ensure that it observes a gender based analytical approach? This聽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.