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Karin Aggestam

Professor, Director, MECW Scientific Coordinator

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The gender-resilience nexus in peace building : the quest for sustainable peace

Author

  • Karin Aggestam
  • Linda Eitrem Holmgren

Summary, in English

Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender-resilience nexus in theory and analyses global trends and variation in peacebuilding policy and practice. It advances an analytical framework based on three central pillars of peacebuilding: process, outcome, and expertise. A comprehensive analysis of 49 international peacebuilding handbooks, produced by leading international organisations for policymakers and practitioners in the field, is conducted. The results show how the integration of the gender-resilience nexus signals new ways of understanding conflict dynamics and peacebuilding. Yet, gender peace expertise is ‘thin’ in regards to policies and practices of resilient conflict transformation. By way of conclusion, we suggest three directions to be taken in research to advance and refine the gender-resilience nexus. First, the politics and contestation of peacebuilding need to be problematised and explored further. Second, the understanding of resilience in peacebuilding needs to shift emphasis from conflict management to conflict transformation. Third, the positionality of peacebuilding actors and local contexts need to be probed further.

Department/s

  • Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2022-08-01

Language

English

Pages

880-901

Publication/Series

Journal of International Relations and Development

Volume

25

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • Sustainable Peace
  • resilience
  • conflict
  • women
  • peacebuilding
  • gender

Status

Published

Project

  • Middle East in the Contemporary World
  • Gendering Peacemaking in the Middle East

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1581-1980