Feminist Security Politics

Examining the effect of feminist advocacy in transforming traditional security practices before and since the adoption of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in 2000.

Donor Funding and WPS Implementation

Researching the dynamics between donors and women’s peace organisations.

Gender and Conflict Transformation

Addressing the relationship between gender norms and counter-terrorism policy.

Funding Transitional Justice

Looking at donor support for Transitional Justice.

Gender and Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka

This two-part project explores key political, ethical and methodological challenges involved in the production of politically actionable knowledge about conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence in Sri Lanka.

Land and Political Economy Collective Output Project 

When Women Do Not Own Land: Land Ownership and Women’s Empowerment in Sri Lanka

Exploring the relationship between land security and women’s empowerment in Sri Lanka.

Land Reform, Peace and Informal Institutions

Delving into the implementation and effects of land restitution in Colombia.

Beyond War Compensation

Using a combination of interviews, observations, group dialogues, and participatory arts-based methods such a community theatre performance, this project aims to improve the understanding of the gender realities of post-war conflicts associated with land acquisition and livelihoods including women and children’s experiences and agency in land rights claims.

Land Policy, Gender and Plural Legal Systems

Exploring the impact of land policy on gender justice in Sierra Leone.

Sex, Love and War

War, displacement, sexualities and intimate gendered relationships.

Changing SOGIE in Conflict, Peace and Displacement in the MENA

This project examines the impact of the Syrian War and attendant displacement on diverse SOGIE individuals and communities in Lebanon, Turkey, and Syria

Transitional Masculinity, Violence and Prevention

This project investigates the mechanisms that construct aggressive and controlling masculinity in (post)conflict-affected environments in order to support the construction of alternative masculinities.

Cross-Border Wars, Sexuality and Citizenship

Assessing the gendered needs and rights of cross-border women and children.

Men, Peace and Security

This project investigates contemporary development, humanitarian and security efforts to change men and masculinities.

Sexuality, Work and Gender Relations in Peacekeeping Missions: New Approaches to Tackling Sexual Exploitation & Abuse

The project examines the role of men and masculinity in shaping the knowledge on sexual exploitation and abuse in current or former peacekeeping missions, assessing international local ‘sexual’ practices, ideas and myths within peacekeeping missions.

The Gender Hubcast

The Gender Hubcast provides an innovative platform for Gender, Justice and Security Hub members to reflect on feminist practice, knowledge production, and ethics in the study and practice of peacebuilding.

Transformative Conversational Practice in Feminist Spaces: Early Career Network and Global South Perspectives

With a foundation in intersectional feminist principles, the project aims to create a transformative space within academia, emphasising the equal significance of the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of research, in relation to the ‘what’ is ultimately produced.

The Stories of Research

This research draws on feminist scholarship to critically examine epistemic violence within research and to advance knowledge and practice in gender justice research practices and research communication.

Narrating (in)security

Using applied theatre approaches and videography, the project engages with a group of Tamil women living in Batticaloa, in the eastern province of Sri Lanka whose lives have been affected by the conflict.

The Global Wellbeing and Resilience Index

The GWRI measures societal wellbeing and resilience, especially in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

From Female Combatants to Filmmakers – Expanding Women’s Agency in War and Peace

The stories of female ex-combatants in Colombia and Uganda.

Innovative Methodologies and Methodological Innovation

Exploring innovative methods and feminist ethics.

Rights Research with Social Media

This research examines the characteristics and implications of backlash to transitional and gender justice, particularly as expressed on social media, among academic and activist circles in Guatemala, Colombia, Uganda, and Sri Lanka.

Return, Reintegration and Political Restructuring

This research project explores and analyses the gender experiences of returnees (forced and voluntary) in Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Gendered Dynamics of International Labour Migration

Advancing a gender-sensitive understanding of the interaction between economic and socio-cultural drivers of labour migration.

Gender and Forced Displacement

Measuring how gender inequalities are affected by forced displacement in Afghanistan, Kurdistan-Iraq, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Turkey.

COVID-19 and Women in Transitional Countries: A Comparative Perspective

Amani Gender, Justice and Security Resource Centre

The Amani Gender, Justice and Security (GJS) Resource Centre is a facility set up to document, curate and disseminate conflict, gender, peace, justice and security-related publications and artefacts.

Gender, Governance, and Peacebuilding: Institutional Reform in Jordan, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka

Focussing on the development of gender-related governance arrangements in conflict affected countries.

Addressing Post-Colonial Legacies in Transitional Justice

This project aims to see what role transitional justice can play in relation to colonial harms.

Culture and Conflict

Investigating the value of culture to women in conflict settings.

Women’s Rights After War

Understanding which women benefit from women’s empowerment reforms in the aftermath of armed conflict.

Social and Economic Rights in Transition

This project improves knowledge of the role of social and economic rights in peace agreements and examines how civil society organisations can use peace agreements as levers for socioeconomic transformation.

Political Economy of Reconciliation

Understanding reconciliation in Colombia in all its complexity.

Women’s Political and Economic Empowerment

This project’s historical dataset is the first in Colombia to bring this data together and disaggregate by gender.

Legacies of the Disappeared: Missing Children and Parental Harm in Protracted Social Conflict

A comparative, context-specific examination of the harm suffered by parents in the aftermath of their children’s disappearances.

The Potentialities and Politics of Transformation

This study engages with the politics and potentialities of transformative justice in this highly dynamic and evolving socio-political environment.