Building Peace ─ Feminist Perspectives

Moving seamlessly from the global to the local, from the politics of institutions to the theoretical apparatus through which we analyse peace and security governance, the contributions to this volume draw attention to the operations of gendered power in peacebuilding across diverse contexts and explore the possibilities of gender-sensitive, sustainable peace. The authors have wide-ranging expertise in gendered analysis of the peacebuilding practices of international and national organisation, detailed and complex qualitative analysis of the gendered politics of peacebuilding in specific country contexts, and feminist analysis of the tools we use to think with when approaching contemporary debates about peacebuilding. The volume thus serves not only as a useful marker of the development of feminist encounters with peacebuilding but also as a foundation for future scholarship in this area.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Peacebuilding.

Laura J. Shepherd is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her primary research engages the motifs of participation and protection that characterise debates about women, peace and security in global politics.