The gender-resilience nexus in peace building : the quest for sustainable peace
Aggestam, Karin LU
and Eitrem Holmgren, Linda
LU
(2022)
In Journal of International Relations and Development
25(4).
p.880-901
- Abstract
- Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender-resilience nexus in theory and analyses global trends and variation in peacebuilding policy and practice. It advances an analytical framework based on three central pillars of peacebuilding: process, outcome, and expertise. A comprehensive analysis of 49 international peacebuilding handbooks, produced by leading international organisations for policymakers and practitioners in the field, is conducted. The results show how the integration of the gender-resilience nexus signals new ways of understanding conflict dynamics and peacebuilding. Yet, gender peace expertise is ‘thin’ in regards to policies and practices of... (More)
- Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender-resilience nexus in theory and analyses global trends and variation in peacebuilding policy and practice. It advances an analytical framework based on three central pillars of peacebuilding: process, outcome, and expertise. A comprehensive analysis of 49 international peacebuilding handbooks, produced by leading international organisations for policymakers and practitioners in the field, is conducted. The results show how the integration of the gender-resilience nexus signals new ways of understanding conflict dynamics and peacebuilding. Yet, gender peace expertise is ‘thin’ in regards to policies and practices of resilient conflict transformation. By way of conclusion, we suggest three directions to be taken in research to advance and refine the gender-resilience nexus. First, the politics and contestation of peacebuilding need to be problematised and explored further. Second, the understanding of resilience in peacebuilding needs to shift emphasis from conflict management to conflict transformation. Third, the positionality of peacebuilding actors and local contexts need to be probed further. (Less)
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- author
- Aggestam, Karin
LU
and Eitrem Holmgren, Linda
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-08-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Sustainable Peace, resilience, conflict, women, peacebuilding, gender
- in
- Journal of International Relations and Development
- volume
- 25
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 880 - 901
- publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- external identifiers
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- pmid:35919634
- scopus:85135270075
- ISSN
- 1581-1980
- DOI
- 10.1057/s41268-022-00269-9
- project
- Middle East in the Contemporary World
- Gendering Peacemaking in the Middle East
- language
- English
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