A feminist opening of resilience: Elizabeth Grosz, Liberian Peace Huts and IR critiques.

ABSTRACT: While the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations have celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, critical scholars claim that the agenda has rarely been able to foster resilience. They show how programmes have only slowly and partially achieved gender balancing and parity in war-affected countries. The limitation we identify in the debate between policy and critique is that resilience has often been reduced to an egalitarian project-where mechanical policies and schemes are deployed to ameliorate the conditions of women, enhance their participation in decision-making and pursue the equality between women and men-to advance in sustaining peace. In this article we complement the existing critiques by engaging with the feminist writings of Eliz

SUBMITTER: Martin de Almagro M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9375057 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature