Shaping policy, sustaining peace: Intergenerational activism in the policy ecosystem

Luttrell-Rowland, Mikaela; Engebretson, Jessica; Segalo, Puleng

doi:10.1080/10130950.2021.1883926

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“…The emerging scholarship on and practice of integral African feminine leadership (Naicker 2020), among other examples of women's leadership in African contexts (Poltera 2019), can make a meaningful contribution in this regard. As can girls and young women's grassroots activism that is increasingly viewed as a source of innovative, intergenerational policy-making (Luttrell-Rowland et al 2021), despite the multiple challenges faced by these women, often in inhospitable environments.…”

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How Can the UN Sustaining Peace Agenda Live Up to Its Potential?

Mahmoud

2023

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict

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This chapter is being written at a time when our global social and economic systems are breaking down (Schwab 2019). Many of them were designed to concentrate power and benefits in a few hands while distributing the damage from wanton exploitation to the many. Over 4 billion poor people cannot use the law to improve their lives (WJP 2019). They only experience it as a punishment for something.Democracy with all its virtues and deficits is not faring well. It is crumbling before our eyes, even in countries judged to be its exemplars and ferocious defenders. This is shifting the international balance in favor of tyranny (Repucci and Slipowitz 2021). The latest democracy index Youssef Mahmoud is senior advisor at the International Peace Institute. He is a former undersecretary-general who has led several peace operations in Central Africa.

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How Can the UN Sustaining Peace Agenda Live Up to Its Potential?

Mahmoud

2023

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict

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“…Based on our previous research with WPS changemakers, we decided to broaden our focus on the larger field of international development rather than more narrowly on WPS because of the dominant ways peace and security are largely understood as located within an international development frame (see Aoláin and Valji, 2019; Cornwall and Rivas, 2015; Gbowee, 2019; Heathcote and Otto, 2014; Luttrell-Rowland et al, 2021). We placed a particular focus on indicators measuring African contexts in order to speak directly to the intertwined historical projects of gendered and racialized understandings of conflict, peace and development (Mama, 1997) and how common insecurity and civil unrest are presented as largely occurring in the Global South.…”

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“…1.For a further discussion of the findings from this programme, and what was uncovered about key assumptions of the field of WPS, see Luttrell-Rowland et al’s forthcoming article ‘Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace and Security Critical Learning Community’ and Luttrell-Rowland et al’s (2021) article ‘Shaping policy, sustaining peace: intergenerational activism in the policy ecosystem’. Agenda 35: 1, 109–119.…”

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Dominant Development Indexes’ Construction of Gender and Challenges for Recognizing Everyday Activism for Peace and Security

Luttrell-Rowland,

Rhee,

Okujagu

2023

Progress in Development Studies

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Developed organizations have increasingly garnered numerous indicators to measure gender and development outcomes. Yet, measurements themselves reflect a logic of the arenas where development occurs and can be captured, and therefore reflect where women are imagined to predominantly exist. Based on the analysis of 1,298 indicators across 15 major development databases covering African countries, this article argues that mainstream development organizations predominantly understand gender in terms of institutional sites. Sometimes these were sites for intervention, or a place for institutional ‘betterment’ (a hospital, a work place, and a school). Other times, these sites were conceptualized as natural places where women would be (the family and the nation state). We identify the spatial logics underpinning these development indicators, and link them to larger historical gendered and racialized colonial logics organizing diverse social, economic, and cultural lives, where economic and institutional sites are promoted, a more nuanced and relational one is displaced. Ultimately, these spatial imaginings extend to the larger context of where debates about peace and security are situated—namely in largely individual, state-driven, and institutional-centric ways.

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Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community

Luttrell-Rowland,

Prandini Assis,

Segalo

et al. 2023

International Studies Review

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This paper features the process whereby an experimental Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) program fostered a critical learning community around peace and security across 13 countries and with 40 women. It addresses the epistemological questions of doing research in collective ways (with and among activists/scholars), the axiological challenge of recognizing and embracing counter-expertise, and the possibilities for incorporating values and practices of care as well as non-extractivism in producing and disseminating knowledge. By articulating the core ethical principles that emerged from this experience, the paper suggests a critical feminist epistemological commitment in taking seriously grassroots women's knowledge in peace and security processes, rather than what is often done in both policy and academy: prescribing their needs from above, interpreting their knowledge from the outside, and advising what problems to tackle and how to live.

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Shaping policy, sustaining peace: Intergenerational activism in the policy ecosystem

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

How Can the UN Sustaining Peace Agenda Live Up to Its Potential?

How Can the UN Sustaining Peace Agenda Live Up to Its Potential?

Dominant Development Indexes’ Construction of Gender and Challenges for Recognizing Everyday Activism for Peace and Security

Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community

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