Law and Policy Frameworks
Livelihood, Land and Rights
Masculinities and Sexualities
Methodological Innovation
Migration and Displacement
Transformation and Empowerment
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.
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.
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.
Providing new perspectives on the world’s most urgent injustices
A network of practitioners, researchers and activists raising awareness of gender insecurities and injustices to work towards inclusive peace.