/rnwps/taxonomy/term/2/all en /rnwps/channels/news/launch-research-postcard-series-rnowps-354707 <p>January 25, 2024 | Research Network on Women, Peace and Security launched a new series, 'Research Postcards', to feature and summarize the recent work of their network members. The series aims to increase the representation and discoverability of the research conducted by their members. </p> <p><a href="/rnwps/article/media/highlighting-our-members-research">View the postcards</a></p> Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:53:38 +0000 victoria.weston@mcgill.ca 771 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/revolution-female-myanmars-women-fighting-against-min-aung-hlaings-junta-australian-institute-348646 <p>June 7th, 2023 | In this article, Isabella Aung shows how civil activism in Myanmar against the military junta is being increasingly led by women. Despite overwhelming odds, they are beginning to have impact. Southeast Asia has been facing a significant authoritarian turn in the past decade. This political trend puts women activists at risk for the simple reason that autocrats fear women and have traditionally taken extreme measures to eliminate feminist challenges to authoritarian power.</p> Wed, 07 Jun 2023 14:46:49 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 766 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/iconic-war-images-and-myth-good-american-soldier-media-war-conflict-348427 <p>May 23rd, 2023 | This article explores the ‘good American soldier’ as a gendered ideal type shaped by, and reproductive of, myths about American military success, romantic notions of small-town working and white America, notions of heterosexual virility, and ableist stereotypes about personal resilience.</p> Tue, 23 May 2023 19:28:03 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 765 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/seeking-inclusion-breeding-exclusion-uns-wps-agenda-and-syrian-peace-talks-international-negotiation-348408 <p>May 19th, 2023 | In this article, Dr. Marie-Joëlle Zahar analyzes the Women’s Advisory Board (WAB) to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, a unique mechanism designed to include women in peace processes. Has the WAB fulfilled its objective? Based on ethnographic material, and primary and secondary sources, we argue that the WAB fostered a sentiment of exclusion among some of its members and of the broader spectrum of Syrian women’s organizations. The article further suggests that the WAB failed to meaningfully include women in the Syria peace process.</p> Fri, 19 May 2023 16:37:11 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 764 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/women-and-peace-negotiations-looking-forward-looking-back-international-negotiation-348246 <p>May 9th, 2023 | Despite the global norm favoring women’s participation in peace negotiations, women continue to face constraints in accessing, influencing, and benefitting from peace settlements.</p> Tue, 09 May 2023 14:12:33 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 763 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/neither-global-north-nor-global-south-locating-post-soviet-space-inout-women-peace-and-security-348020 <p>April 25, 2023 | In this article, Bénédicte Santoire argues that the post-Soviet space has been erased from the WPS literature because – as elsewhere in the social sciences – the end of the Cold War rearranged the East/West geopolitical imaginaries into a Global North/Global South divide. Consequently, this epistemic gap creates an incomplete picture of the WPS agenda as a whole.</p> <p><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616742.2023.2195412?journalCode=rfjp20#.ZEf4R2fmIQ8.twitter">Read the article.</a></p> Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:00:53 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 760 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/historic-moment-el-salvador-abortion-case-fuels-hopes-expanded-access-across-latin-america-guardian-347866 <p>April 19, 2023 | Human rights activists in Latin America hope that a historic court hearing over the case of a Salvadoran woman who was denied an abortion despite her high-risk pregnancy could open the way for El Salvador to decriminalize abortions – and set an important precedent across the region.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/24/historic-moment-as-el-salvador-abortion-case-fuels-hopes-for-expanded-access-across-latin-america?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other">Read the article.</a></p> Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:48:46 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 758 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/disrupting-saviour-politics-women-peace-and-security-agenda-global-south-grassroots-women-creating-347614 <p>April 5th, 2023 | Dr. Luna KC and Dr. Chrystal Whetstone argue that grassroots Global South women, despite their marginalisation, are global gender norms actors and deserve greater decision-making power on the local and international stages. They show how the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and the broader WPS agenda focus on global gender norms construction in Nepal and Sri Lanka.</p> Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:03:43 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 754 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/building-national-identity-through-schooling-and-language-policies-burmanization-diversity-347209 <p>March 23rd, 2023 | In this article, Isabella Aung discusses the importance of policy making around languageand education in building a common national identity, using the case study of Myanmar from 1962 to the present day. By comparing the Burmanization process by different Burmese governments to French nation-building through schools and schooling in the 1800s, this paper argues that the successful sustenance of diverse states draws from effective long-term diversity managementthrough education reforms.</p> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:52:29 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 753 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/deploying-feminism-role-gender-nato-military-operations-oxford-university-press-346173 <p>February 16th, 2023 | In this book, Stéfanie Von Hlatky gives a detailed account, based on fieldwork and interviews, of how Women, Peace and Security norms are militarized and put at the service of operational effectiveness.</p> <p><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/deploying-feminism-9780197653524?cc=ca&lang=en&#">Purchase here.</a></p> Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:41:17 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 749 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/broken-pathways-politics-clearing-path-grassroots-representative-politics-journal-women-politics-346039 <p>February 10, 2023 | This article seeks to explain why so few women make the journey from social activism and community work to standing for election. Comparative research in Indonesia and Sri Lanka reveals four operations critical to mending the broken pathway to politics for non-elite women. <i>Transference</i> entails the recognition and valuing of women’s preexisting skills, knowledge and experiences gained through grassroots activity for the political field. <i>Amplification</i> is required of women’s symbolic capital so that it impresses upon a larger public.</p> Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:45:29 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 748 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/changing-face-security-being-woman-ambassador-nato-policy-magazine-345939 <p>February 7, 2023 | Canada’s diplomatic corps includes high-profile women in senior roles, from Ambassador to the United States Kirsten Hillman to WTO Ambassador Nadia Theodore to Ambassador to Ukraine Larisa Galadza. Ambassador Kerry Buck served as Canada’s permanent representative to NATO from 2015 to 2018. As the first woman to serve in that role, she generously shares her experience as a woman both in the foreign service and in the male-dominated halls of NATO headquarters.</p> Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:10:15 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 747 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/shifting-authority-indigenous-law-making-and-state-governance-journal-international-studies-345938 <p>February 7, 2023 | In this article, Leah Sarson examines the context of Canada’s extractive sector, where I question how and when Indigenous laws prevail over state laws to challenge colonial authority and reassert Indigenous self-determination. By highlighting new sites of authority and resistance, this work underscores the transformative possibilities of Indigenous politics.</p> <p><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03058298221084001">Read the article. </a></p> Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:03:43 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 746 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/women-peace-and-security-governance-asia-pacific-multi-sclar-field-discourse-and-practice-345825 <p>February 1st, 2023 | The UN's Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is now over 20 years old, yet much of the Asia–Pacific has been slow to engage in formalized WPS work at national and regional scales. In this article, Stéphanie Martel, Jennifer Mustafa, and Sarah E. Sharma examine the relatively recent development of official WPS national action plans by Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Timor-Leste, alongside mounting collective efforts towards WPS governance by regional organizations like ASEAN.</p> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:03:58 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 744 at /rnwps /rnwps/channels/news/technology-facilitated-gender-based-violence-hate-speech-and-terrorism-risk-assessment-rise-incel-344136 <p>December 7th, 2022 | In this article, Esli Chan reveals that Canadian violent extremism frameworks minimize online GBV as a form of extremism. GBV, which extends from online to offline realities, is not captured in theoretical frameworks for terrorism and hate speech.</p> <p><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10778012221125495">Read the article.</a></p> Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:33:59 +0000 emma.donnaint@mcgill.ca 740 at /rnwps