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The Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Place, Space, and Knowledge Production

Laura J Shepherd editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:25th Sep '23

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The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is comprised of the policies, protocols and practices enacted by a wide range of actors inspired by, or under the auspices, of the UN Security Council resolutions adopted under the title of ‘women and peace and security’. Since the adoption of the first resolution in 2000, resolution 1325, there have been nine others, each of which elaborates or extends aspects of the original resolution.

This book provides a forward-looking collection of scholarship on the WPS agenda in two halves. The first half of the book presents a series of essays that each provide a glimpse of the rich and insightful research on WPS being undertaken in and about different contexts, to demonstrate the importance of centring the "local" as a site of knowledge production in the WPS agenda. The essays presented in the second half of the book also engage questions of knowledge production, documenting the exploratory methods in use in WPS scholarship, and highlighting those topics engaged at the hinterlands of what is a broad field – topics that gesture at the future of research in this area.

The chapters in this book were originally published as special issues of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.

'This collection does a great job of highlighting why it is necessary to assess the impact of NPAs at the local level. Listening to some of the most marginalized voices can show us the limitations of our current understanding of conflict resolution and processes of international and national policies’ translation to the local level.'

- Mason Grant Considine,Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Reading

ISBN: 9781032104652

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

282 pages