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List of contents
Author Biographies
Table of Cases
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One – Collective Security
Chapter Two – Unilateral Force
Chapter Three – Countering Terrorism
Chapter Four – International Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict
Chapter Five - International Criminal Law
About the author
Gina Heathcote is a Reader in Gender Studies and International Law, at the Centre for Gender Studies and the School of Law, SOAS University of London, UK.Sara Bertotti is a Doctoral Researcher and Teaching Fellow at the School of Law, SOAS University of London, UK.Emily Jones is a Lecturer in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, UK.Sheri Labenski is a Research Officer in the Centre for Women, Peace, and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she works on an ERC-funded project Gendered Peace.
Summary
The Law of War and Peace offers a cutting-edge analysis of the relationship between law, armed conflict, gender and peace. This book, which is the first of two volumes, focuses on the interplay between international law and gendered experiences of armed conflict. It provides an in-depth analysis of the key debates on collective security, unilateral force, the laws governing conflict, terrorism and international criminal law. While much of the current scholarship has centered on the UN Security Council's Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security, this two-volume work seeks to move understandings beyond the framework established by WPS. It does this through providing a critical and intersectional approach to gender and conflict which is mindful of transnational feminist and queer perspectives.
Foreword
The first extended legal studies analysis of the interplay between gender, conflict and international law, applying an intersectional, decolonial approach to gendered experiences of war.
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“He words me my women”. The observation of Cleopatra on Ceasar coursed through my mind as I read this book. Joy and despair! Joy at the clarity of the analysis and the accessible, compelling narrative –(you don’t need a legal back ground to enjoy this!) despair at the extent to which we have, indeed, been ‘worded’. The authors beautifully pull back their feminist lens providing a fuller picture to emerge, one which exposes how; the language of our WPS resolutions has been subverted of meaning when it comes to practice, how perhaps our focus or even ‘distraction’, on WPS has enabled exponential international violence to become legitimized, how gender is, perhaps, the determinative issue in law, war and peace and how there is an absolute imperative to expose at all times the duplicity that flows from the patriarchal assumptions which regulate them. This book shows that we know what they do and like Cleopatra we ‘will not be conquered’.
