Florence Waller-Carr explores the instrumentality and power of emotions in policy spaces and frameworks using analysis of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda to argue that language is embedded with emotion and produced in systems of power within historical and cultural contexts.
Read MoreEvelyn Pauls asks feminist scholars to take participatory methodologies seriously by reflecting on participating filmmaking.
Read MoreDipti Tamang explores the relevance, limitations and challenges to the WPS agenda in the context of the conflicted regions of Eastern India.
Read MoreNayia Kamenou argues that when critically employed by local actors, national and transnational discourses and paradigms prompt feminist politics of peace.
Read MoreA more comprehensive assessment of impact would benefit from an in-depth analysis of how the implementation of Women, Peace and Security measures have contributed to changes in dominant notions of masculinity within military organizations, or how they have impacted on male perceptions of women, both in the organization and outside of it.
Read MoreHow can women, peace and security community develop good policy recommendations to respond to what women might encounter tensions between the war time empowerment they experienced and the limitations deriving from the patriarchal structures upheld or resurfacing in the post-war era?
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