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(En)gendering and Securitizing Youth with UN Security Council Resolution 2250

Sebhatu, Rahel Weldeab LU (2018) SIMV07 20172
Graduate School
Department of Political Science
Education
Abstract
On 9 December 2015, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) in a move that gave recognition to the work young people are doing to promote peace. In an investigation to critically examine whether UNSCR 2250 recognizes youth agency for peace or whether it may be used to securitize young people, this thesis analyzes the discursive terrain in which the Resolution became possible in the first place. By critically engaging with Critical Security Studies through a gender and postcolonial lens, this thesis develops a theoretical framework that may be referred to as a postcolonial feminist approach to critical security studies, which is then used to locate gender and agency... (More)
On 9 December 2015, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) in a move that gave recognition to the work young people are doing to promote peace. In an investigation to critically examine whether UNSCR 2250 recognizes youth agency for peace or whether it may be used to securitize young people, this thesis analyzes the discursive terrain in which the Resolution became possible in the first place. By critically engaging with Critical Security Studies through a gender and postcolonial lens, this thesis develops a theoretical framework that may be referred to as a postcolonial feminist approach to critical security studies, which is then used to locate gender and agency through the master signifiers that genders the embodied performativity of young people in (post)conflict societies. Through the research method provided by discourse theory, this thesis then deconstructs the ways in which young people produce themselves as agents of peace and compares it to the way the UN Security council reproduces youth as assets, risks, and/or good citizens in the making. This thesis reveals that young people are viewed by the UN Security Council as objects of securitization more than as agents of peace. This thesis concludes by exposing the power and authority behind the adoption of UNSCR 2250, while also revealing its silences. This thesis contributes to debates on Feminist Security Studies and attempts to advance a postcolonial feminist approach to Critical Security Studies. (Less)
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author
Sebhatu, Rahel Weldeab LU
supervisor
organization
course
SIMV07 20172
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
critical security studies, postcolonial feminism, UNSCR 2250, gender, youth
language
English
id
8938127
date added to LUP
2018-06-27 12:23:28
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2018-06-27 12:23:28
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  abstract     = {{On 9 December 2015, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) in a move that gave recognition to the work young people are doing to promote peace. In an investigation to critically examine whether UNSCR 2250 recognizes youth agency for peace or whether it may be used to securitize young people, this thesis analyzes the discursive terrain in which the Resolution became possible in the first place. By critically engaging with Critical Security Studies through a gender and postcolonial lens, this thesis develops a theoretical framework that may be referred to as a postcolonial feminist approach to critical security studies, which is then used to locate gender and agency through the master signifiers that genders the embodied performativity of young people in (post)conflict societies. Through the research method provided by discourse theory, this thesis then deconstructs the ways in which young people produce themselves as agents of peace and compares it to the way the UN Security council reproduces youth as assets, risks, and/or good citizens in the making. This thesis reveals that young people are viewed by the UN Security Council as objects of securitization more than as agents of peace. This thesis concludes by exposing the power and authority behind the adoption of UNSCR 2250, while also revealing its silences. This thesis contributes to debates on Feminist Security Studies and attempts to advance a postcolonial feminist approach to Critical Security Studies.}},
  author       = {{Sebhatu, Rahel Weldeab}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{(En)gendering and Securitizing Youth with UN Security Council Resolution 2250}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}