Full Description
The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is comprised of the policies, protocols and practices enacted by a wide range of actors inspired by, or under the auspices, of the UN Security Council resolutions adopted under the title of 'women and peace and security'. Since the adoption of the first resolution in 2000, resolution 1325, there have been nine others, each of which elaborates or extends aspects of the original resolution.
This book provides a forward-looking collection of scholarship on the WPS agenda in two halves. The first half of the book presents a series of essays that each provide a glimpse of the rich and insightful research on WPS being undertaken in and about different contexts, to demonstrate the importance of centring the "local" as a site of knowledge production in the WPS agenda. The essays presented in the second half of the book also engage questions of knowledge production, documenting the exploratory methods in use in WPS scholarship, and highlighting those topics engaged at the hinterlands of what is a broad field - topics that gesture at the future of research in this area.
The chapters in this book were originally published as special issues of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.
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
