WG2 Feminist Peace
In recent years, feminist studies have been increasingly important in understanding the state of the world by rethinking multiple kinds of peace(s), justices, and violences, as well as other erasures, marginalisations, and their entanglements. Yet, more often than not, policies in the field of peace and conflict continue to rely upon the same concepts to deal with violence and conflict that have created them in the first place. In addition, matters of war and peace, and of relations between states, are usually understood and analysed through a Eurocentric worldview. This tendency dramatically impoverishes our sense of possibility. By contrast, this Working Group will engage with multiple feminisms, diverse policy and activist interventions, and a multitude of theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions to the study of peace with the objective to dramatically advance the state of the art by articulating feminist imaginations and practices of more equitable and just futures.
Co-leadership:
Élise Féron is a Professor and the Director of INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) at Ulster University in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Her main research interests include feminist peace research, diaspora politics, and the multiple entanglements between conflict, violence and peace, including the long-term consequences of disappearances. She has three decades of experience researching these issues in the South Caucasus, Eastern Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Northern Ireland, Madagascar and Cyprus, among other places.
Dr. Birgit Poopuu (she/her) is Associate Professor of International Relations and co-director of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub (CEEShub) at Tallinn University. She is currently the Principal Investigator of European Horizon Twinning grant “A critical relational perspective on peace & security in CEE”. Her main research interests include politics of knowledge production in global politics, critical approaches to security and peace and conflict studies, and critical theoretical perspectives in International Relations.
