What does gender equality mean for peace, justice, and security? At the turn of the 21st century, feminist advocates persuaded the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution that drew attention to this question at the highest levels of international policy deliberations. Today the Women, Peace and Security agenda is a complex field, relevant to every conceivable dimension of war and peace. This groundbreaking book engages vexed and vexing questions about the future of the agenda, from the legacies of coloniality to the prospects of international law, and from the implications of the global arms trade to the impact of climate change. It balances analysis of emerging trends with specially commissioned reflections from those at the forefront of policy and practice.
Soumita Basu is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the South Asian University. Paul C. Kirby is Lecturer in International Security at the University of Sussex. Laura J. Shepherd is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of International Relations at the University of Sydney.
United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and SecurityForeword: Toward Strategic Instrumentalism ~ Anne Marie GoetzWomen, Peace and Security: A Critical Cartography ~ Soumita Basu, Paul Kirby and Laura J. ShepherdPart I: EncountersSouth Sudanese Women on the Move: An Account of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda~ Rita M. Lopidia and Lucy HallThe Price of Peace? Frictional Encounters on Gender, Security and the ‘Economic Peace Paradigm’ ~ Nicole GeorgeDifficult Encounters with the WPS Agenda in South Asia: Re- scripting Globalized Norms and Policy Frameworks for a Feminist Peace ~ Rita ManchandaBest Practice Diplomacy and Feminist Killjoys in the Strategic State: Exploring the Affective Politics of Women, Peace and Security ~ Minna Lyytikäinen and Marjaana JauholaBetween Protection and Participation: Affect, Countering Violent Extremism and the Possibility for Agency ~ Elizabeth PearsonLessons Lived in Gender and International Criminal Law ~ Patricia Viseur Sellers and Louise ChappellHolding Feminist Space ~ sam cook and Louise AllenPart II: HorizonsGlobal Racial Hierarchies and the Limits of Localization via National Action Plans ~ Toni Haastrup and Jamie J. HagenTowards a Postcolonial, Anti- Racist, Anti- Militarist Feminist Mode of Weapons Control ~ Anna StavrianakisThe Privatization of War: A New Challenge for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda ~ Marta Bautista Forcada and Cristina Hernández LázaroHuman Trafficking, Human Rights and Women, Peace and Security: The Sound of Silence ~ Gema Fernández Rodríguez de Liévana and Christine ChinkinAddressing Future Fragility: Women, Climate Change and Migration ~ Briana Mawby and Anna ApplebaumFeminist Challenges to the Co-optation of WPS: A Conversation with Joy Onyesoh and Madeleine Rees ~ Joy Onyesoh, Madeleine Rees and Catia Cecilia Confortini