Laura J. Shepherd is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of International Relations at The University of Sydney, Australia and a Senior Research Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. She has researched extensively on the Women, Peace and Security agenda since its inception.

'This collection does a great job of highlighting why it is necessary to assess the impact of NPAs at the local level. Listening to some of the most marginalized voices can show us the limitations of our current understanding of conflict resolution and processes of international and national policies’ translation to the local level.' - Mason Grant Considine, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Reading

• Introduction: Encountering the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in 2020 1. Global pathways or local spins? National Action Plans in South America 2. Rethinking "participation" in Women, Peace and Security discourses: engaging with "non-participant" women's movements in the Eastern borderlands of India 3. In between the ulemas and local warlords in Afghanistan: critical perspectives on the "everyday," norm translation, and UNSCR 1325 4. "This agenda will never be politically popular": Central Europe’s anti-gender mobilization and the Czech Women, Peace and Security agenda 5. Temporality and the discursive dynamics of the Rwandan National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security from 2009 and 2018 6. "Our struggle, our cry, our sweat": challenging the gendered logics of participation and conflict transition in Solomon Islands 7. Affect and its instrumentality in the discourse of protection 8. Female fighters shooting back: representation and filmmaking in post-conflict societies 9. Caught between art and science: the Women, Peace and Security agenda in United Nations mediation narratives 10. "Masculinities perspectives": advancing a radical Women, Peace and Security agenda? 11. Gender in the United Nations’ agenda on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism 12. Women, Peace and Security in a changing climate

Laura J. Shepherd is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of International Relations at The University of Sydney, Australia and a Senior Research Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. She has researched extensively on the Women, Peace and Security agenda since its inception.

'This collection does a great job of highlighting why it is necessary to assess the impact of NPAs at the local level. Listening to some of the most marginalized voices can show us the limitations of our current understanding of conflict resolution and processes of international and national policies’ translation to the local level.' - Mason Grant Considine, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Reading

• Introduction: Encountering the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in 2020 1. Global pathways or local spins? National Action Plans in South America 2. Rethinking "participation" in Women, Peace and Security discourses: engaging with "non-participant" women's movements in the Eastern borderlands of India 3. In between the ulemas and local warlords in Afghanistan: critical perspectives on the "everyday," norm translation, and UNSCR 1325 4. "This agenda will never be politically popular": Central Europe’s anti-gender mobilization and the Czech Women, Peace and Security agenda 5. Temporality and the discursive dynamics of the Rwandan National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security from 2009 and 2018 6. "Our struggle, our cry, our sweat": challenging the gendered logics of participation and conflict transition in Solomon Islands 7. Affect and its instrumentality in the discourse of protection 8. Female fighters shooting back: representation and filmmaking in post-conflict societies 9. Caught between art and science: the Women, Peace and Security agenda in United Nations mediation narratives 10. "Masculinities perspectives": advancing a radical Women, Peace and Security agenda? 11. Gender in the United Nations’ agenda on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism 12. Women, Peace and Security in a changing climate

Laura J. Shepherd is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of International Relations at The University of Sydney, Australia and a Senior Research Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. She has researched extensively on the Women, Peace and Security agenda since its inception.

'This collection does a great job of highlighting why it is necessary to assess the impact of NPAs at the local level. Listening to some of the most marginalized voices can show us the limitations of our current understanding of conflict resolution and processes of international and national policies’ translation to the local level.' - Mason Grant Considine, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Reading

• Introduction: Encountering the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in 2020 1. Global pathways or local spins? National Action Plans in South America 2. Rethinking "participation" in Women, Peace and Security discourses: engaging with "non-participant" women's movements in the Eastern borderlands of India 3. In between the ulemas and local warlords in Afghanistan: critical perspectives on the "everyday," norm translation, and UNSCR 1325 4. "This agenda will never be politically popular": Central Europe’s anti-gender mobilization and the Czech Women, Peace and Security agenda 5. Temporality and the discursive dynamics of the Rwandan National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security from 2009 and 2018 6. "Our struggle, our cry, our sweat": challenging the gendered logics of participation and conflict transition in Solomon Islands 7. Affect and its instrumentality in the discourse of protection 8. Female fighters shooting back: representation and filmmaking in post-conflict societies 9. Caught between art and science: the Women, Peace and Security agenda in United Nations mediation narratives 10. "Masculinities perspectives": advancing a radical Women, Peace and Security agenda? 11. Gender in the United Nations’ agenda on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism 12. Women, Peace and Security in a changing climate