The Stories
United Nations. United Nations. Accessed November 7, 2022. https://www.un.org/en/exhibits/exhibit/in-their-hands/stories. In the late 20th century, the UN created a new branch focused on gender studies; much of the…
Category: Gender
How the Women of Liberia Fought for Peace and Won
Tavaana, September 17, 2019. https://tavaana.org/en/en/content/how-women-liberia-fought-peace-and-won. – NO LONGER AVAILABLE (CANCELLED) This website tells the tale of how women helped greatly bring about peace in…
The Elders
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2021) Available at: https://theelders.org/profile/ellen-johnson-sirleaf (Accessed: November 2, 2022) The website provides biographical and cultural context to the life and work of Allen Johnson…
South Sudan’s 2015 Peace Agreement and Women’s Participation
Sabala, Kizito. African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 7, no. 1 (2017): 80-93. This article looks at the role of women in peace agreement negotiations, from which they have often been excluded or listened to without…
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence
Krystalli, Roxani, and Schulz, Philipp. 2022. In International Studies Review 24 (1) In this article, Roxani Krystalli and Philipp Schulz explore the practices of love and care that sit alongside the experiences of…
We were wives, mothers, daughters : participatory filmmaking for peace building by indigenous Papuan women
Cooke, Adeline. 2019. This thesis focuses on the way that participatory videos (PV) can be adapted and used by grassroots communities to have their voices in peacebuilding heard. This thesis is part of the greater We…
The National Film Board’s Studio D: Feminists Making FILMS FOR PEACE
Taylor, Anita. 1987. Looks at the work and general overview of a particular Women’s Canadian Film studio (Studio D) which makes films for inciting peace. Highlights the importance of film and narratives as a way to…
Elsewhere: In Love and War: The Duplicitous Women of New War Cinema
Qureshi, Bilal. 2018. in Film Quarterly, 72 (2): 67-70. The incorporation of previously marginalized segments of the population into film has allowed for the development of cinema as a discipline and art to tackle new…
Western Masculinities in War and Peace
Nye, Robert A. 2007. in The American Historical Review, 112 (2): 417-438. An exploration of the gender roles presents in soldiers throughout the war, examining how the existence of beliefs in these roles determined the…
Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence
Coulthard, Lisa. 2007. in Interrogating Postfeminism. An exploration of how Tarantino’s Kill Bill, failed to challenge the dominant patriarchal, capitalist ideology using violence carried out by a female protagonist…