Feminist Peace Research

Élise Féron is Docent and Senior Research Fellow, Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University, Finland.Tarja Väyrynen is Professor at Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University, Finland.

'This textbook is one of the top eye-opening books every scholar and practitioner involved in conflict resolution should read. In these terrible times, it is unique in at least three regards. First, it puts into question most preconceived ideas on war and peace. Second, it dissects embodied interactions and gendered dynamics during and after mass atrocities. Third, it boosts determination to favour collaboration and mutual support leading to everyday peace. An outstanding exercise of reflexivity.'Valérie Rosoux, University of Louvain, Belgium'This is an extremely valuable and highly-accessible contribution to the literature on Peace and Conflict Studies. Feminist research agendas have led the way on many aspects of peace and this book provides an excellent state-of-the-art summary on multiple themes. It will be a ‘'must add'’ to many reading lists.'Roger Mac Ginty, Durham University, UK 'The timeliness of this textbook cannot be overstated. I have been in the Peace Studies field for over twenty-five years and have longed for a feminist textbook since the beginning of my career. What Élise Féron and Tarja Väyrynen have delivered is nothing short of extraordinary: a comprehensive introduction to the vast feminist work on peace and violence. In their nuanced and rich chapters on the variety of topics that feminists have tackled, they show how feminism transforms peace studies in multiple ways: it broadens our understanding of peace and violence to include subjects too often sidelined by the field; it challenges some of the premises or assumptions of much of peace studies work (for example, clear-cut peace-war cleavages); and it exposes the silences and marginalizations that the field has perpetuated, elevating actors and ways of thinking, which might well provide the world with alternative models for peaceful and just futures.'Catia C. Confortini, Wellesley College, USA'Féron and Väyrynen have done us a huge favour by writing this brilliant book that brings together the concepts and ideas that have both enthused and troubled feminists invested in the futures of peace. For all those interested in Feminist Peace Research, this much needed book would be a valuable resource and the very first important milestone in their journey.'Swati Parashar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• 1. Feminist Peace Research: An Introduction SECTION 1 – BODIES IN WAR AND PEACE 2. Conflicts and Wars as Corporeal Experiences 3. Female Combatants 4. Wartime Sexual Violence 5. The Gendered Dimensions of Forced Displacement 6. Post-Conflict Reconciliation and Memory Work 7. Embodied War Trauma and Postmemory SECTION 2 – WAR AND PEACE: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH 8. Matrices of Domination, Intersectionality and Violent Conflicts 9. Gendered Images and Roles During Violent Conflicts 10. Masculinities, Nationalism and Militarism 11. Feminist Approaches to Genocide 12. Feminist Analyses of War Economies 13. Youth, Conflict and Peace SECTION 3 – SUBALTERNITY, ABJECTION AND SILENCING IN WAR AND PEACE 14. Decolonialising Peacebuilding 15. Post-Conflict Silencing 16. Artificial Intelligence and Military Technologies 17. Alternative Ontologies and Conflict Transformation 18. Non-Human Animals in Military Institutions SECTION 4 – ENABLING AND DISABLING ENVIRONMENTS 19. Continuums of Violence 20. Post-War Violence and Impunity 21. Disasters, Famines and Epidemics 22. Climate Crisis and Justice 23. Environmental Peacebuilding SECTION 5 – POWER, RESISTANCE AND ACTIVISM 24. Power and Resistance in Peacebuilding 25. Feminist and Women’s Peace Activism 26. Everyday Peace 27. Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Through the Arts 28. Epilogue: Feminist Imaginings of Peace