Gendered and racial inequalities persist in even the most progressive of workplaces. There is increasing evidence to suggest that all aspects employment, from hiring performance evaluation promotion, are affected by gender cultural background. In higher education, bias has been posited as one reasons why few women make it upper echelons academic hierarchy. With unprecedented access institution-wide student survey data a large public university Australia, we investigated role conscious or...

Cora Weiss, co-drafter of what became UN Security Council Resolution 1325, noted in 2011 that the purpose eliminating conflict-related sexualised violence must not be to ‘make war safe for women’. 1325 and subsequent resolutions should legitimise or normalise war, but rather agenda support demilitarisation society facilitate development anti-militarist politics peace. This article explores translation into National Action Plans a number countries actively involved contemporary conflict...

The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has developed at the United Nations over course of past 15 years, there have been critical engagements with it for nearly as long. In this article, we first take stock operationalization WPS agenda, reviewing its implementation across a number sectors. second section, expose tensions that marked from start. With others, argue narrowing agenda's original scope, reducing to traditional politics security rather than reimagining what means. We highlight...

Abstract Understanding the ways in which discursive construction of gender allowed for US-led attacks on Afghanistan to be considered a legitimate response 9/11 is vital study international relations and reclaiming feminist politics attacks. Through identification exploration various representations identity period after before Afghanistan, I will illustrate centrality narratives production recognizable narrative war. focus identities 'the nation', enemy' intervention', with each exploring...

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 was adopted in October 2000 with a view to ensuring that all aspects of conflict management, post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding be undertaken sensitivity towards gender as an axis exclusion. In this paper, I do not dwell on the successes shortcomings UNSCR for long, instead using discussion platform analysis subsequent Resolutions, including UNSCRs 1820 (2008), 1882 (2009), 1888 (2009) 1889 (2009). This last relates specifically...

United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 was adopted in 2000 with the aim of ensuring all efforts toward peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction, as well conduct armed conflict itself, would entail sensitivity gendered violence inequalities. In this article, I contrast two accounts writing UNSCR that issue from institutions claim authority over document: NGO Working Group on Women, Peace Security. make a broader theoretical argument about importance paying analytical...

Questions of borders, boundaries and orders animate this ground-breaking book from Cynthia Weber; throughout, Weber draws attention to the ways in which knowledge is produced in, about, both ‘international relations’ ‘International Relations’ (IR), fidelity that demanded (mostly implicitly) conventional configurations power, legitimacy subjectivity. These rely on shared fiction meaningful borders (conceptual, figurative actual) cannot—and should not—be transgressed. proceeds recognition...

This special issue brings together articles that examine how the localisation and implementation of Women, Peace Security agenda occurs in policy practice. In this introduction, we increasing importance framework global politics inevitable tensions surround calls for greater local-level institutional implementation. Drawing on findings from United Nations 2015 Global Study Implementation Council Resolution 1325, consider evolving nature advocacy. We look at what is required to develop...

Building upon its development in educational scholarship, feminist scholars have incorporated the concept of ‘critical friend’ into their methodologies. Within political science, feminists articulated critical friendship as relational research praxis, applying to relationships between academics and gender experts institutions. We bring this conversation with care ethics, asking how commitments ethics interact being a science research. Based on interviews researchers, we argue that is...

This special issue of International Affairs, launched on Women's Day 2016, explores the potential and limits Women, Peace Security agenda, a global policy architecture supporting gender equality today significant reference point in management resolution of, as well recovery from, violent conflict. The (conventionally abbreviated to WPS) agenda was formally inaugurated by United Nations Council Resolution 1325 October 2000. Across 18 operative paragraphs, appealed for greater participation...

This article explores a gendered dimension of war and conflict analysis that has up until now received little attention at the intersection gender studies global politics: queer bodies in, genderqueer significations of, conflict. In doing so, introduces concept cisprivilege to International Relations as discipline security core sub-field. Cisprivilege is an important, but under-explored, element constitution Whether it be in controversial reactions suggestion United Nations Special...

The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission was created in 2005 to have oversight of peacebuilding operations. In the foundational resolution, adopted simultaneously by Security Council (S/RES/1645) and General Assembly (A/RES/60/180), is mandated encourage meaningful participation peacebuilding-related activities civil society actors. This article investigates construction ‘civil society’ as a subject discourse, drawing on both policy documents interview data. inclusion actors currently...

AbstractThe literature on transitional justice tends to conceive of transition as a bounded process that takes place immediately following conflict, rather than envision the part building peace. Significantly, this separate historical conflict and contemporary transition. While similarities between recent are often acknowledged, remedies available under framework rarely applied violence injustice inherent settler colonialism. This omission creates some troubling silences in literature, which...

People learn about global politics not (solely or even mostly) from conventional teaching in the discipline of International Relations (IR) but popular culture. We use television series Game Thrones to expand upon this premise. show how representations gendered foundations political authority can be found culture ways that challenge division such knowledge IR. and other cultural texts potentially enable different thinking world subvert both disciplinary mechanisms divide up related...

Abstract The Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda is a global peace security architecture conventionally understood as emerging from suite of UN Council resolutions accompanying member state action plans over the last twenty years. serves major international gender equality initiative in its own right prominent example broadening practices politics. In this paper, we present first truly systematic analysis agenda, drawing on novel dataset 213 WPS policy documents across system, national...

In the discipline of International Relations (IR), which takes seriously issues war and peace, there has been a lack attention paid to theorising security in relation violence. this article, I explore potential for feminist reworking these concepts. With reference range literature addressing violence, offer some insights into relevance such reconceptualisation. draw ways work on violence function reproduce understandings concepts that delimit value both academic policy prescription. study...

In this essay I develop a critique of the war/peace dichotomy that is foundational to conventional approaches IR through review three recent publications in field feminist security studies. These texts are Cynthia Enloe's (2007) Globalization and Militarism, David Roberts' (2008) Human Insecurity, Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence Global Politics by Laura Sjoberg Caron Gentry (2008). Drawing on insights these books, ask first how violence understood global politics, with specific...

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