Building Peace

Laura J. Shepherd is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her primary research engages the motifs of participation and protection that characterise debates about women, peace and security in global politics.

• 1. Victims of violence or agents of change? Representations of women in UN peacebuilding discourse Laura J. Shepherd 2. A seat at the table is not enough: understanding women’s substantive representation in peace processes Kara Ellerby 3. The relationship of political settlement analysis to peacebuilding from a feminist perspective Fionnuala Ní Aoláin 4. Light, heat and shadows: women’s reflections on peacebuilding in post-conflict Bougainville Nicole George 5. ‘What is wrong with men?’: revisiting violence against women in conflict and peacebuilding Donna Pankhurst 6. Decolonising gender and peacebuilding: feminist frontiers and border thinking in Africa Heidi Hudson 7. Feminists building peace and reconciliation: beyond post-conflict Elisabeth Porter