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About the author
Farkhondeh Akbari is a research fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women at Monash University where she researches inclusive peace, diplomatic actors, feminist foreign policy and the Women, Peace and Security agenda. She completed her PhD in diplomatic studies at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. Farkhondeh has previously worked at the Department of Political Affairs at the United Nations, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the Afghanistan Independent Directorate of Local Governance.
Jacqui True FASSA FAIIA is Professor of International Relations and Maureen Brunt Fellow at Monash University and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW). She is a Global Fellow of the Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo and received her PhD from York University, Canada, and an honorary doctorate from Lund University, Sweden, in 2018. Jacqui is a leading scholar in the field of International Relations, with research expertise on gender, peace and security and violence against women globally. Her scholarship has attracted numerous awards and accolades and includes 21 books and over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles.
Summary
Women, Peace and Security in Afghanistan analyses the opportunities and limitations of the WPS agenda in the context of the world’s worst erasure of women’s rights.
Afghan women have long resisted war, violence and political exclusion, yet their struggles remain largely overlooked in global peace and security debates. This book examines how Afghan women’s activism has reshaped the fight for rights and freedom. Through feminist pragmatist grounded normative theorising, Afghan women’s diverse voices, strategies, and lived realities are made visible across war, peace and politics. From international military intervention and peacemaking deals to current engagement and non-engagement with the Taliban, this book is an urgent call to recognise and support women’s agency in the face of oppression.
