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This collection of conversations examines and expands a concept of ‘feminist peace’. Feminist and critical theories have made significant contributions to understanding peace and security in International Law and International Relations, most noticeably in the recognition in law and certain policies of gender-based harms inflicted during war and the adoption and progression of the Women, Peace and Security agenda in the UN Security Council. However, as recognised in much contemporary research, the potential of these developments to prevent violence and protect individuals and communities from harm have proven limited, to say nothing of their potential to deliver peace. It is evident then that recognition of (gender-based) harm in order to prevent the perpetuation of violence must include a broader view on inequalities, violence, colonialism and oppression, understanding both how power imbalances are extended across geographies and contexts and how they are structured not just by gender but also intersectional oppressions, colonial legacies and imperialism. Through inter-disciplinary conversations this collection develops plural concepts of peace, unbound by traditional geographies and temporalities, one that recognises and engages with institutional and conceptual limitations, and most importantly acknowledges ongoing feminist resistance to systemic abuse and oppression and how the emancipatory potential of this resistance might be harnessed.
In this interdisciplinary dialogue, the authors deliberate on frames of ‘feminist peace’. Using a decolonial feminist methodology, a ‘friendship/kitchen table’, the conversation addresses the coloniality of gender as it intersects with peace, race and empire. The conversation centres differential material realities and structural inequalities, racial capitalism, (im)migration, militarization, securitization, violence and ongoing war and conflict. It is guided by questions on visioning feminist peace: What is our vision of feminist peace? How is our vision informed by our intersectional, queer, transnational and decolonial feminist politics and praxis? How does this vision allow us to articulate and activate different political demands that work towards transformative forms of justice?
At what became the founding meeting of the International Women’s Network Against Militarism (IWNAM) in Naha Okinawa in 1997, Suzuyo Takazato, a founding member of Okinawa Women Act against Military Violence, asserted: ‘We have the US–Japan Security Treaty but it does not protect us. We need a new definition of security.’ The purpose of this conversation is to examine the history of the IWNAM and the concept of genuine security: a framework for analyzing the conditions we face includes not just race, class, gender and sexuality, but also nation, neoliberalism, the US military and the ‘protection of national interests’. The converrsation addresses militarism, the foundation of military bases, prisons and border patrols; the use of violence to resolve conflicts; obscene US and global military expenditures; and the racism/ethnocentrism, classism, patriarchy and male dominance embedded in the institutions in all our societies.
This collection of conversations examines and expands a concept of ‘feminist peace’. Feminist and critical theories have made significant contributions to understanding peace and security in International Law and International Relations, most noticeably in the recognition in law and certain policies of gender-based harms inflicted during war and the adoption and progression of the Women, Peace and Security agenda in the UN Security Council. However, as recognised in much contemporary research, the potential of these developments to prevent violence and protect individuals and communities from harm have proven limited, to say nothing of their potential to deliver peace. It is evident then that recognition of (gender-based) harm in order to prevent the perpetuation of violence must include a broader view on inequalities, violence, colonialism and oppression, understanding both how power imbalances are extended across geographies and contexts and how they are structured not just by gender but also intersectional oppressions, colonial legacies and imperialism. Through inter-disciplinary conversations this collection develops plural concepts of peace, unbound by traditional geographies and temporalities, one that recognises and engages with institutional and conceptual limitations, and most importantly acknowledges ongoing feminist resistance to systemic abuse and oppression and how the emancipatory potential of this resistance might be harnessed.
In this conversation, the authors explore their journeys as feminist international lawyers, since co-authoring the first article on feminism and international law (‘Feminist approaches to international law’) published in 1991. The conversation explores the discipline as a vehicle for progress and peace, a site for change and maps where international law has transformative potential and questions whether its building blocks are too embedded for change. Reflecting on 25 years of academia and practice, the contributors interrogate their own positionality and potential new directions in the discipline for transformative peace.
This chapter provides an overview of current conceptualizations of feminist peace within different disciplinary trajectories, particularly in the fields of international law and International Relations. The introduction draws out the central thematic threads that connect the conversations in this collection – extractivism, militarism, violence, the legacies of patriarchal and colonial violence, and contemporary resistances – and explores the value of conversation as a feminist collaborative research methodology.
This collection of conversations examines and expands a concept of ‘feminist peace’. Feminist and critical theories have made significant contributions to understanding peace and security in International Law and International Relations, most noticeably in the recognition in law and certain policies of gender-based harms inflicted during war and the adoption and progression of the Women, Peace and Security agenda in the UN Security Council. However, as recognised in much contemporary research, the potential of these developments to prevent violence and protect individuals and communities from harm have proven limited, to say nothing of their potential to deliver peace. It is evident then that recognition of (gender-based) harm in order to prevent the perpetuation of violence must include a broader view on inequalities, violence, colonialism and oppression, understanding both how power imbalances are extended across geographies and contexts and how they are structured not just by gender but also intersectional oppressions, colonial legacies and imperialism. Through inter-disciplinary conversations this collection develops plural concepts of peace, unbound by traditional geographies and temporalities, one that recognises and engages with institutional and conceptual limitations, and most importantly acknowledges ongoing feminist resistance to systemic abuse and oppression and how the emancipatory potential of this resistance might be harnessed.
Weaponized in various subtle and increasingly creative ways, systemic patriarchy has been opposed with whatever tools could be brought to hand; the most recent of these has been social media and the power of individual stories. The #MeToo movement consists of the millions of individuals who have added their personal voices and stories to the growing resistance against sexual harassment and abuse. Questions explored in the chapter include: What are the gains of the #MeToo movement since its launch in mid-2017? How can these be preserved, prevented from shrinking or disappearing, and strengthened? What has our work over these past three years taught us about patriarchy, feminism, activism and resistance?
This conversation addresses the question: what is peace and is it possible? The contribution centres feminist and decolonial thinking, focusing on visions for alternative futures and the openings for peace they create. The authors put into conversation lived experiences and knowledge from two postcolonial spaces – the post-socialist post-Yugoslav and the Andean-Amazonian space – which have different historical and political contexts. In so doing, the conversation focuses on the possible conceptualizations of feminist and inclusive peace, drawing on ideas rooted in different cultures, and discusses the possibilities of envisioning peace in a plural form.
Peacebuilding requires a complex set of operations and transformations that address root causes of conflict, repairs victims and creates trust – all of which are highly gendered, often tied to territory and increasingly impacted upon by climate change. In spite of their centrality, resource extraction and environmental conflict have been largely absent from peacebuilding theory, policy and practice, especially in terms of what they mean for women, men and persons of other gender identities, of different ages, social classes, abilities and ethnic backgrounds. This conversation explores what lessons can be drawn from the faltering peace processes in Colombia and Myanmar in this respect. Thinking through the peace processes from an intersectional gender lens and environmental perspective, the chapter examines the pitfalls and perils of institutionalized fixes to complex conflicts, leading to unjust and unstable peace processes and deteriorating democracies.
