/channels/taxonomy/term/26114/all en /channels/channels/news/prosecution-will-not-solve-my-problems-womens-senses-justice-and-reparations-after-conflict-related-338167 <p>March 4, 2022 | After living through war, abduction, sexual and gender-based violence, some female survivors in Northern Uganda escaped rebel captivity. Many returned to their communities with children fathered by rebels. Instead of being embraced, community members met survivors and their children with suspicion, rejection, blame and stigmatization. That began a new chapter of hardship in the survivors’ lives.</p> Sun, 06 Mar 2022 21:47:58 +0000 webfull 178476 at /channels /channels/channels/news/gendered-experience-disaster-womens-account-evacuation-relief-and-recovery-nepal-international-337844 <p>February 4, 2022 | This paper presents an in-depth analysis of women earthquake survivors during and after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal by looking at women’s experience of evacuation, relief, and recovery. In particular, it examines how gender intersects with socio-economic factors such as citizenship, caste, ethnicity, income, debt, and location to shape women’s disaster experience.</p> <p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212420922000590">Access the article.</a></p> Mon, 21 Feb 2022 14:07:25 +0000 webfull 178119 at /channels /channels/channels/news/womens-resistance-violent-settings-infrapolitical-strategies-brazil-and-colombia-re-writing-women-337187 <p>2019 | By Anne-Marie Veillette and Priscyll Anctil Avoine, this chapter emerges from the two fieldwork investigations conducted in Brazil (2016) and Colombia (2015). The first one, carried out in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, aims to understand and analyse the nature and the impacts of police violence, as well as resistance emerging in that context, based on women’s testimonies.</p> Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:11:23 +0000 webfull 177363 at /channels /channels/channels/news/indian-federalism-and-violence-against-women-complex-web-power-relationships-handbook-gender-337186 <p>June 2020 | Feminist scholars, including Network member Priscyll Anctil Avoine, debate the impact of state architectures on women’s movements, partisan organizations and policy advocacy using innovative discursive, institutional and intersectional approaches.</p> <p><a href="https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/handbook-on-gender-diversity-and-federalism-9781788119290.html">Access the book.</a></p> Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:03:08 +0000 webfull 177362 at /channels /channels/channels/news/disembodying-combat-female-combatants-political-reintegration-nepal-and-colombia-university-waterloo-337185 <p>June 2021 | Network member Priscyll Anctil Avoine focuses on the political issues underlying the particular place of women in insurgent combat and what it means to “re-embody” civilian society with a temporal glance at the 15-year transition in Nepal and the 5-year peace process in Colombia.</p> <p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352488155_Disembodying_Combat_Female_Combatants'_Political_Reintegration_in_Nepal_and_Colombia">Read the paper.</a></p> Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:56:07 +0000 webfull 177361 at /channels /channels/channels/news/politique-etrangere-feministe-le-canada-doit-il-aller-plus-loin-sans-escale-336518 <p>12 janvier 2021 | Une conversation entre deux amies et passionnées d’affaires internationales : la journaliste Laura-Julie Perreault et la chercheuse Laurence Deschamps-Laporte, rompue aux arcanes de la politique étrangère. Dans chaque épisode, elles abordent avec leurs invités de multiples enjeux à travers le monde, par des angles variés, en puisant dans leurs expériences.</p> <div class="bl-tpl"><a class="button--outline" href="">Écouter le fichier balado</a></div> Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:47:15 +0000 webfull 176549 at /channels /channels/channels/news/engaging-girls-and-women-disabilities-global-south-beyond-cultural-and-geopolitical-generalizations-335446 <p>March 13, 2021 | Xuan Thuy Nguyen and Deborah Stienstra argue for recognizing the lingering impacts of colonialism and imperialism in producing disability and impairment in the South, while suggesting new ways of engaging with disabled girls and women through the use of inclusive, decolonial, and participatory methods.</p> <p><a href="https://asksource.info/resources/engaging-girls-and-women-disabilities-global-south-beyond-cultural-and-geopolitical">Read the article.</a></p> Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:08:35 +0000 webfull 175434 at /channels /channels/channels/news/feminist-reflections-discourses-power-sharing-power-sharing-theory-international-political-science-335426 <p>October 24, 2019 | Written by Dr. Siobhan Byrne, the objective of this article is to demonstrate how feminist approaches can provide a new language of both power and sharing to illuminate pathways through the ‘exclusion amid inclusion’ dilemma in power-sharing theory.</p> <p><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192512119868323">Read the article</a>.</p> Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:57:21 +0000 webfull 175409 at /channels /channels/channels/news/endurance-womens-mobilization-during-patriarchal-backlash-case-colombias-reconfiguring-armed-335425 <p>March 29, 2021 | Written by Dr. Julia Zulver, this article focuses on the Alianza de Mujeres Tejedoras de Vida, an association of women in Putumayo who mobilized for peace and women’s rights during Colombia’s armed conflict. </p> <p><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616742.2021.1901061">Read the article.</a></p> Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:51:30 +0000 webfull 175408 at /channels /channels/channels/news/asociacion-de-mujeres-afro-por-la-paz-feminism-body-and-face-woman-afromupaz-335424 <p>July 2, 2021 | Dr. Julia Zulver writes about The Asociación de Mujeres Afro por la Paz (Association of Afro Women for Peace—AFROMUPAZ), an organization of displaced Afro-Colombian women now based in Bogotá. The organization represents a differential brand of feminism in the face of historical and ongoing violence and provides community, support, and employment opportunities for dozens of women and their families.</p> <p><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0094582X211020742">Read the article.</a></p> Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:41:17 +0000 webfull 175407 at /channels /channels/channels/news/reproductive-labor-reproductive-violence-colombias-special-jurisdiction-peace-and-its-window-335423 <p>November 24, 2020 | Through this conversation between anthropology, law, and feminism, Tatiana Sanchez Parra and Teresa Fernandez-Paredes hope to shed some light on the opportunities and challenges of addressing a more comprehensive notion of reproductive violence in contexts of war and political transitions.</p> <p><a href="https://polarjournal.org/2020/11/24/from-reproductive-labor-to-reproductive-violence-colombias-special-jurisdiction-for-peace-and-its-window-of-opportunity/">Read the paper.</a></p> Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:33:50 +0000 webfull 175406 at /channels /channels/channels/news/global-cities-will-be-epicentres-gendered-climate-insecurity-why-we-must-foreground-women-urban-335180 <p>November 3, 2021 | As the 26<sup>th</sup> UN Climate Change Conference takes place in Glasgow, Maryruth Belsey Priebe and Tevvi Bullock ask is there adequate attention to gender in urban-climate-conflict discussions, pledges, and policies? Their blog is evidence of why the gender-climate-security nexus is critical for countries to be better prepared to deal with climate change.</p> <p><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2021/11/03/global-cities-will-be-epicentres-of-gendered-climate-insecurity-why-we-must-foreground-women-in-urban-climate-security-policy/">Read the article.</a></p> Thu, 25 Nov 2021 21:46:48 +0000 webfull 175133 at /channels /channels/channels/news/anniversary-peace-deals-nepal-and-colombia-views-female-ex-soldiers-need-be-challenged-conversation-335014 <p>November 18, 2021 | What are the experiences of female ex-soldiers upon their return to civilian society? Using the research they conducted in Nepal and Colombia, Luna K.C. and Priscyll Anctil Avoine examine the social and political setbacks these women encounter in the transition to peace.</p> <p><a href="https://theconversation.com/anniversary-of-peace-deals-in-nepal-and-colombia-views-on-female-ex-soldiers-need-to-be-challenged-171468">Read the article.</a></p> Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:27:09 +0000 webfull 174926 at /channels /channels/channels/news/children-born-war-role-fathers-international-affairs-333959 <p>March 1, 2020 | Children ‘born of war’ are increasingly recognized as a particular victim group in relevant international policy frameworks. Previous scholarship has primarily documented the challenges faced by their mothers as caregivers and as victims of wartime sexual violence, while a discussion on fathers to children ‘born of war’ is notably absent. Based on research in northern Uganda between 2016 and 2019, this article explores how some fathers seek to maintain a relationship with children born as the result of ‘forced marriage’ and assume partial or full responsibility for their wel</p> Wed, 06 Oct 2021 14:41:10 +0000 webfull 173736 at /channels /channels/channels/news/canadas-foreign-policy-really-feminist-analysis-and-recommendations-network-strategic-analysis-nsa-333784 <p>September 23, 2021 | What does a feminist foreign policy entail within the Canadian context, and how do we ensure that it observes a gender based analytical approach? This policy report proposes concrete recommendations toward this goal, it also encourages foreign and defence actors to reflect on fundamental gender equality principles and considerations that get lost in the face of results-oriented policy approaches aimed for the short term.</p> Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:22:52 +0000 webfull 173554 at /channels