329:. Reardon has been a notable proponent of the role of education in peace work while simultaneously stressing that feminist scholarship is often left out of the discussion. She has pointed to the ways in which the field of peace research as a whole has repeatedly sidelined women's issues and experiences, minimizing and considering them nonessential in analysis of conflict and peacebuilding. As part of her work in this area, Reardon has held founding roles in several initiatives for peace education, including the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association.
200:. Since its inception, WILPF has argued that it is impossible for true peace to exist amidst the presence and usage of arms. This baseline argument evolved into several current campaigns for disarmament, a push for greater UN representation of women, condemnation of nuclear power, and many other efforts. WILPF has been fundamental in bringing attention to the entangled relations of peace, disarmament, and dynamics of gender in the arms race; it has stressed that this perspective is equally as important as scientific and legal analyses of the issue.
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reparation of the gaps in the conventional understanding of politics where women have been left out of the conversation. Within this, Enloe has devoted much of her career toward research specifically on the gendered dynamics of militarism. She argues that militarism exists far beyond the actual practices of the military, extending into domestic and interpersonal contexts, and that gendered dynamics play an inextricable role in its appearance in those spheres.
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feminist scholarship prioritizes the integration of "stories in the margins," a phrase used widely across feminist peace research that stresses the importance of concern for and involvement of all women, not just those in dominant identity groups. In this pursuit, those most impacted by issues are able to have an active role in addressing and finding solutions for them, with their insights made an essential part of the process.
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that they themselves can contribute to violence (or peace) through the way in which they engage with their work. It is through this awareness of power that stories from the margins continue to be foregrounded, as research hierarchies are actively destabilized. A new book series focusing on this sort of work is the
Edinburgh University Press series Feminist Studies on Peace, Violence and Justice.
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many scales, and points to how these scales are interconnected. While gender is the dominant lens through which processes of peace and violence are analyzed, this research seeks to address the ways in which other intersecting systems of power, such as race, class, sexuality, and disability, among many others, further complicate these dynamics.
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research distrusts the idea that there are any universal truths about peacebuilding, and understands that applications of peace cannot be effective when prescribed by a detached, external source. Instead, it stresses, the process of building peace must involve those directly impacted by the violences being addressed. The idea of
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uphold binary notions of identity. The inclusion of queer analysis reveals the influence of sexuality in peace and conflict as much as a feminist analysis points to the influence of gender, and some feminist peace work deems it necessary to prioritize both for a thorough understanding of the impacts of each of those dynamics.
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is present in the everyday, and these experiences are often interrelated. Likewise, the same is true for experiences of peace. Feminist scholars often refer to the image of a "continuum" of violence and peace to demonstrate this point and challenge the perception of a dichotomy between the two. The classic feminist slogan "
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Another component key to addressing power relations within the research process is reflexivity on the part of the researchers. Feminist peace researchers make a conscientious effort to reflect on their own positions of power and privilege and how that may manifest within their research, understanding
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in 2000. UNSCR 1325 was the first of its kind to directly address women's experiences with conflict, as it acknowledged the intrinsically gendered components of war and violence, and it supported the influx of feminist scholarship and involvement in peace studies. In 2021, the field of feminist peace
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Feminist peace researchers also make note of the common gendered misperceptions of peace and peacebuilding, which are often labeled as "feminine" and thus discredited in comparison to the positive, masculine associations with war and violence. Efforts toward justice and equality within feminism are
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is particularly emphasized, whereby the focus is on peace with justice, rather than peace only through the absence of war (known as negative peace). Feminism views violence (as well as peace) as existing and interconnected at many scales, addressing both the day-to-day as well as the larger-scale,
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uses a feminist framework to expand on conventional peace research practices, examining the roles of gender and other power structures to conceptualize and actively build peace with justice. Feminist peace research understands peace and violence to be interwoven and ongoing processes that occur at
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International Peace Association. Boulding was an active participant in the seminars of the Center for Conflict Resolution, run by her husband at the University of Michigan, as she not only attended each meeting but also
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is best known for her research on the visibilization of women's lived experiences within patriarchal structures, pushing for an answer to the question "where are the women?" This question is meant to reveal women's absences in male-dominated institutions and systems of power, and to move toward
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as an essential component for examining violence and power, and calls attention to the failure of conventional peace research to do so. This research acknowledges an inseparable overlap between the analysis of gendered hierarchies and conventional ideas about sex and sexuality, as both serve to
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factors such as race, class, and sexual orientation. Feminists underscore the ways in which these intersections influence and compound one another within both violence and peace, and accordingly assess how to confront their interlocking systems of power. It is also through this framework that
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while promoting education as an emancipatory tool. She is especially notable for her very early conceptualizations of intersectionality, as she highlighted the violence of castes and patriarchal structures as interconnected and influential over one another. While Phule recognized education's
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movements. The "power-with" framing entails a turn toward recognizing the agency of those who have previously been perceived to be powerless, and in doing so broadening the understanding of where and within whom power can be sourced.
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much of peacebuilding, specifically stressing the impacts of those dynamics on the quality of the work being done. Created in 2016, the network currently includes over eighty feminist scholars and activists, and is continuing to grow.
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potential to be a pathway for mass organizing and mobilizing against oppressions, she also saw the threat of its ability to continue to preserve structural violences.
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