Feminist Solutions for Ending War

Megan MacKenzie is the Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Military and the Myth that Women Can't Fight (CUP, 2015).Nicole Wegner is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimizes Warfare (Edinburgh Press, 2022).

‘So much of patriarchal political culture is sustained by the myth that war, like poverty, will always be with us. But as I read the grounded, energizing chapters of Mackenzie's and Wegner's engaging book, I realized that the unrealistic ones among us are actually those who perpetuate the myth of unending war’

• Abbreviations and Acronyms Acknowledgements Introduction to Feminist Solutions to Ending War - Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner 1. Giyira: Indigenous Women’s Knowing, Being and Doing as a Way to End War on Country - Jessica Russ-Smith, Lecturer, Australian Catholic University, Australia2. One for All and All for One: Taking Collective Responsibility for Ending War and Sustaining Peace - Heidi Hudson, Professor of International Relations, University of the Free State, South Africa3. Feminist Organising for Peace - Sarai B. Aharoni, Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel4. Piecing-up Peace in Kashmir: Feminist Perspectives on Education for Peace - Shweta Singh, Assistant Professor, South Asian University, India & Diksha Poddar, Researcher, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India5. Learn from Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movements to Imagine the Dissolution of the Nation-state System - Eda Gunyadin, Researcher, University of Sydney, Australia6. Queer Our Vision of Security - Cai Wilkinson, Associate Professor in International Relations, Deakin University, Australia7. Abolish Nuclear Weapons: Draw on Feminist, Queer and Indigenous Theory and Experiences to Support Movements to End Nuclear Weapons - Ray Acheson, Researcher at Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, USA8. Make Foreign Policies as if Black and Brown Lives Mattered - Yolande Bouka, Assistant Professor, Queen’s University, Canada9. Draw on Ecofeminist and Indigenous Scholarship to Reimagine the Ways We Memorialise War - Sertan Saral, PHD Candidate, University of Sydney, Australia10. Engage with Combatants as Interlocutors for Peace, Not Only as Authorities on Violence - Roxani Krystalli, Assistant Professor, University of St Andrews, Scotland11. Recognise the Rights of Nature - Keina Yoshida, Research Officer in the Centre for Women, Peace, and Security, LSE, UK12. Create Just, Inclusive Feminist Economies to Foster Sustainable Peace - Carol Cohn, Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA & Claire Duncanson, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK13. Change How Civilian Casualties are ‘Counted’ - Thomas Gregory, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, New Zealand14. Listen to Women When Creating Peace Initiatives - Laura J. Shepherd, Professor of International Relations, University of Sydney, AustraliaNotes on Contributors Index