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Feminist Peace Research

Feminist perspectives in peace and conflict studies focus on gender relations in wars, conflicts, or peacebuilding, as well as on power relations in international politics. War especially poses special challenges for women, not only are they more often victims of conflict related sexual violence but are usually excluded from participating peace negotiations and decision-making processes.

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But it is not only wars that restrict gender-sensitive human rights, authoritarian states and right-wing movements also fight human rights that were considered self-evident, such as women’s reproductive rights or the rights of LGBTIQ+ persons. Feminist peace and conflict research analyses the causes and consequences of gender inequality and discrimination, but also looks at different forms of violence, i.e. physical, structural and systemic violence, such as sexism and racism, and how these can be countered.

Our new blog series intends to show the diversity of feminist research in peace and conflict studies and to make political successes and failures visible. To this end, in this blog series authors discuss feminist issues in the thematic fields of foreign and security policy, peacebuilding, human rights, displacement, and migration, as well as socio-political and social justice. The blog series aims to show how such inclusive feminist perspectives can change peace and conflict research, but also political and social conditions worldwide.