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UNSCR 1325 is a Security Council Resolution designed to operate in post-conflict contexts. 'Post-conflict' is a discourse with contested temporal and spatial aspects, raising questions about how different perspectives towards 'post-conflict' has affected interpretations of UNSCR 1325 on the ground. Given the contestability of 'post-conflict', surprisingly little research has focused upon how what is identified as the 'post-conflict problem' shapes responses to UNSCR 1325. To address this gap, I contrast configurations of 'post-conflict' within three different initiatives in Serbia that have drawn upon UNSCR 1325. The constructions of 'post-conflict' are understood through an analytical strategy concerned with the representation of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction within each initiative. Making explicit antagonisms at the heart of 'post-conflict' demonstrates how the logic of gender security as it relates to UNSCR 1325 is shaped by the specific problematization of 'post-conflict'. This article outlines new empirical research on the utilization of UNSCR 1325 within three different political contexts in Serbia to assert the importance of realizing the contestability of 'post-conflict' contexts in shaping how we might respond to UNSCR 1325, and indeed, any international policy or ambition intended as a response to post-conflict situations.---

Critical Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) as a field cares about gender. Yet, feminist work frequently receives token acknowledgement by critical scholars rather than sustained engagement and analysis. This Special Issue demonstrates why critical PCS needs feminist epistemologies, methodologies, and empirical analyses. In this introductory article, we deploy a feminist genealogical analysis of the 'four generations' of PCS and argue that the ghettoization of 'gender issues' marginalises feminist work within academia, policy, and practice. Critical PCS research has taken inspiration from feminist scholars, however there remain opportunities for deeper conversations. Addressing this marginalisation matters if we wish to decolonise PCS and develop a nuanced sensory perception of peace and conflict. Furthermore, engaging with feminist ideas can directly contribute to building more meaningful, sustainable, and equitable forms of peace. In short: feminist insights are crucial to prompting a deeper and more transformative dialogue within the scholarship and practice of critical PCS.

Abstract:One of the most extensively discussed requirements introduced in the 2014 REF was impact. In this review piece we focus on the linear and temporal consequences of the REF impact system. We link such consequences to our own research agendas to provide a sense of empirical richness to the broad concerns that arise from the impact agenda and to highlight the effects of the REF's linear focus, and, crucially, the types of alternative narratives it potentially silences. This "silencing" does not render alternative narratives impossible, but rather makes them difficult to articulate as 'safe' options within the existing framework. We highlight how a focus on direct impact could miss the collective nature of impact endeavours, as well as the broader social and cultural benefits of research, and potentially shape and limit the possible research questions posed within this national system. We conclude by opening up some broader questions for the future of impact raised through the consideration of linearity including the question of 'measurement'.1 Although all based within the Politics Discipline Area of the University of Manchester (UoM) when writing this piece, our views are not a result of an institutional experience; we were not told we had to produce REF impact, and nor are there any strong expectations on how to produce impact. Finally, our views are not that of UoM, or other ECRs at UoM.