Imagining Gender Peace and Security in the MENA Region
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Edited by:
Vanessa F. Newby
About this book
The book explores how the WPS agenda in the region is imagined, interpreted and implemented.
The Middle East and North Africa exhibit many of the features the WPS agenda seeks to redress, such as historical grievances, discriminatory legal systems, economic and gender inequality, and fragility marked by violence, extremism and protracted displacement. The region is highly militarized by prolonged conflicts, and the enduring occupation of Palestine. These conditions lead to sexual and gender-based violence that disproportionally affect women and their effective and meaningful participation in conflict prevention and resolution.
This volume examines how women’s and feminist groups engage with peace and security issues. It analyses what they have gained from WPS, and how local women’s activism may either clash or overlap with WPS. It also looks at how women in the region understand peace and security beyond the confines of WPS, or if they are confined to women’s issues.
- First book to provide a scholarly analysis of WPS in the Middle East and North Africa
- First book to interpret the tensions between regional norms and global politics in the context of WPS
- Engages with feminist scholars in the region
Author / Editor information
Vanessa F. Newby is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University, and the President and founder of the NGO Women in International Security (WIIS) Netherlands. Her areas of research interest are peacekeeping, peacebuilding, the Women Peace and Security agenda, gender and institutions and the Middle East.
Bilge Sahin is an Assistant Professor in Conflict and Peace Studies at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Sahin received her PhD in Development Studies from SOAS University of London. Her scholarly work critically engages with armed conflict, peace, and security from a gendered perspective in Africa and the Middle East.
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