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This book provides a forward-looking collection of scholarship on the The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda.
List of contents
Introduction: Encountering the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in 2020 1. Global pathways or local spins? National Action Plans in South America 2. Rethinking "participation" in Women, Peace and Security discourses: engaging with "non-participant" women's movements in the Eastern borderlands of India 3. In between the ulemas and local warlords in Afghanistan: critical perspectives on the "everyday," norm translation, and UNSCR 1325 4. "This agenda will never be politically popular": Central Europe’s anti-gender mobilization and the Czech Women, Peace and Security agenda 5. Temporality and the discursive dynamics of the Rwandan National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security from 2009 and 2018 6. "Our struggle, our cry, our sweat": challenging the gendered logics of participation and conflict transition in Solomon Islands 7. Affect and its instrumentality in the discourse of protection 8. Female fighters shooting back: representation and filmmaking in post-conflict societies 9. Caught between art and science: the Women, Peace and Security agenda in United Nations mediation narratives 10. "Masculinities perspectives": advancing a radical Women, Peace and Security agenda? 11. Gender in the United Nations’ agenda on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism 12. Women, Peace and Security in a changing climate
About the author
Laura J. Shepherd is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of International Relations at The University of Sydney, Australia and a Senior Research Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. She has researched extensively on the Women, Peace and Security agenda since its inception.
Summary
This book provides a forward-looking collection of scholarship on the The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda.
