feminists@law journal examines gender, conflict, and inclusion in political settlements

A new article by Aisling Swaine of LSE and the PSRP completes the Gender Theme Special Issue of feminists@law, an open access journal of feminist legal scholarship.

The Gender Theme Special Issue draws together findings and analysis from the Political Settlements Research Programme, covering issues of gender, conflict, and inclusion in political settlements.

Aisling Swaine’s article, Re-shaping How Political Settlements Engage with Conflict-Related Violence Against Women, considers when and how peace agreements have adopted a gender perspective, using the PSRP’s PA-X peace agreement database to analyse over 1500 peace and transition agreements from between 1990 and 2016. It goes further to consider how inclusion of women is related to the other forms of political and group inclusion contemplated to form part of the new political settlement.

Aisling Swaine’s article joins additional content on a range of gender themes from a number of PSRP researchers, including:

• Editorial: Gender, Conflict and Political Settlements: What Do We Know? by Catherine O’Rourke
• Gendered Political Settlements and Peacebuilding: Mapping Inclusion in Practice by Zahbia Yousuf and Sophia Close
• Principled Pragmatism and the ‘Inclusion Project’: Implementing a Gender Perspective in Peace Agreements by Christine Bell and Kevin McNicholl
• Gender, Social Networks and Conflict Processes by Zoe Marks
• Reshaping How Political Settlements Engage with Conflict-Related Violence Against Women by Aisling Swaine
• Transforming Responses to Domestic Violence in a Politically Contested Environment: The Case of Northern Ireland by Jessica Doyle and Monica McWilliams
• International Gender Equality Norms and their Fragmented Protection in Conflict by Catherine O’Rourke
• New Institutions, New Gender Rules? A Feminist Institutionalist Lens on Women and Power-Sharing by Fiona Mackay and Cera Murtagh

Read the entire Special Issue.