Interrogating the “local” in Women, Peace and Security: reflections on research on and in the UK and Iraq

Achilleos-Sarll, Columba; her,; hers,; Chilmeran, Yasmin

doi:10.1080/14616742.2020.1803097

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“…They also concur with MacKenzie ( 2009 ) and McLeod ( 2015 ) that these interventions maintain the traditional gender roles of women (as victims) and men (as protectors), re-essentialising gender relations. In the same vein, Achilleos-Sarll and Chilmeran ( 2020 ) problematise the use of the ‘local’ in the WPS and the way it determines who is the target of particular programmes or has the authority to speak. For their part, Martin de Almagro and Ryan ( 2019 : 1059) have shown how the failure of UN peacebuilding initiatives to foster peace and security for women relates to its inability to engage with ‘the materiality of women’s lives’ and the fact that the WPS agenda is still wedded to a neoliberal understanding of economic empowerment, which distinguishes between formal and informal activities and conceptualises agency in individualistic terms.…”

Section: The Critique Of the Gender-resilience Nexusmentioning

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Resilience, gender, and conflict: thinking about resilience in a multidimensional way

Juncos

Bourbeau

2022

J Int Relat Dev

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Resilience has become an oft-invoked concept in development and security policy circles and the subject of much debate in the literature. Yet, one aspect that needs to be further theorised is the complex relationship between resilience, conflict and gender. This introduction identifies the gradual congruence between the programmatic agendas of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) and resilience-building approaches in peacebuilding and argues that this convergence needs to be further scrutinised. Our main argument is that it is time for the scholarship to go beyond the simple categorisation of resilience as being either the new paradigmatic solution to international interventions, conflicts and crises or a meaningless and useless governmental buzzword. Instead, the contributions found in this Special Issue see resilience in terms of multiplicity. Resilience, understood in terms of multiplicity and in a multidimensional way, appears a valuable analytical concept to study both the systemic nature of gendered power relations and their prevalence and adaptation over time, as well as the responses of individuals, communities and institutions to the gendered effects of conflict. To add empirical richness to the Special Issue, these conceptual connections are analysed in multiple geographical case studies, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire, Iraq, Liberia, Palestine and Rwanda.

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Section: The Critique Of the Gender-resilience Nexusmentioning

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Resilience, gender, and conflict: thinking about resilience in a multidimensional way

Juncos

Bourbeau

2022

J Int Relat Dev

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“…While the use of the term 'grassroots women' is used in very few literature (Adeogun & Muthuki, 2017;K.C. & Whetstone, 2022;Whetstone & K.C., 2023), other academic writings make use of other terms like community women, grassroots women organizations, everyday women, local women groups or regionalizing to a particular country (e.g., 'Rwandese women or Sudanese women) and civil society organizations (Achilleos-Sarll & Chilmeran, 2020;Gizelis & Joseph, 2016;Madsen, 2018). These different terminologies are used in academic writings to interpret who grassroots women are, however, when assessing how the WPS agenda is implemented during conflict and post-conflict context in countries within the Global South, there appears to be a stratification of grassroots women.…”

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“…CSOs have been viewed by UNSCR 1325 advocates as major players of advancing women right, women empowerment and participation in conflict and post conflict contexts (Achilleos-Sarll & Chilmeran, 2020;Basu, 2016). On the other hand, (Gizelis & Joseph, 2016) maintain that reason CSOs and grassroots women efforts as key players are downplayed is due to the failure of external donors to consider local capabilities and initiatives of grassroot groups in peacebuilding and post-conflict transition.…”

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Mapping Grassroot Women’s Representations in Academic Research on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Global South

Denagamage,

Lekwauwa,

Hurtado-Bautista

2024

Women Stud

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Several feminists and academic scholars have written extensively on implementing the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda and how it has been localized in conflict and post-conflict settings. In the same light, the rising inquiry on the connection of academic writing to empirical studies provides resolution to how WPS agenda could be localized. The objective of this paper is to conduct an exploratory mapping of existing literature on how grassroots women are represented in the academic literature on the localization of the WPS agenda in the Global South. Using a thematic method of analysis, this mapping exercise identified four recurring themes across the academic literature namely the multiple interpretations of ‘grassroots women’ in the Global South, grassroots women and discursive construction of “women participant” in the WPS agenda, hierarchy formation in the representation of grassroots women within CSOs, and gender essentialism and stereotypical portrayal of grassroots women. On the one hand, the discursive and institutional construction of women’s participants identifies women as “non-participants” in the WPS agenda. On the other hand, they constitute the bottom layer of a participant hierarchy, making it difficult to reach meaningful participation. Beyond this institutional and discursive interpretation, we map women’s representation in gender essentialist stereotypes portraying them in their reproductive and caregiver identities. Connecting with critical feminist epistemologies and post-colonial feminisms, our results problematize the unequal power relations between the researcher and the researched as well as the participants themselves. We share concerns that the researchers' power to represent and interpret grassroots women and their engagement is often unchecked and unmitigated.

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Grasping Local Participation: The Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Western Balkans and North Africa

Valle

Strazzari

2022

Global Society

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Interrogating the “local” in Women, Peace and Security: reflections on research on and in the UK and Iraq

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Cited by 8 publications

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Resilience, gender, and conflict: thinking about resilience in a multidimensional way

Resilience, gender, and conflict: thinking about resilience in a multidimensional way

Mapping Grassroot Women’s Representations in Academic Research on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Global South

Grasping Local Participation: The Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Western Balkans and North Africa

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