Providing new perspectives on some of the world’s most urgent injustices
Report: Land Ownership and Women’s Empowerment in Sri Lanka: An Empirical Analysis of Two Districts
Land is widely recognised as an important catalyst for women’s empowerment, yet not much is known about women’s private land ownership and the importance of land ownership for women’s empowerment. In this study, we explore this association using primary data collected from 2000 households in Jaffna and Kandy districts, Sri Lanka. practices to sustainable livelihood generation of rural and conflict affected women.
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Afghanistan
Find out more about our research in Afghanistan through our focus country data and projects.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Find out more about our research in Bosnia and Herzegovina through our research projects.
Colombia
Find out more about our research in Colombia through our focus country data and projects.
Kurdistan-Iraq
Find out more about our research in Kurdistan-Iraq through our focus country data and projects.
Lebanon
Find out more about our research in Lebanon through our focus country data and projects.
Northern Ireland
Find out more about our research in Northern Ireland through our research projects.
Sierra Leone
Find out more about our research in Sierra Leone through our focus country data and projects.
Sri Lanka
Find out more about our research in Sri Lanka through our focus country data and projects.
Uganda
Find out more about our research in Uganda through our focus country data and projects.
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In addition, we recognise that boundaries and naming are, in many contexts, implicated in former and ongoing practices of colonial domination. Learn more about land rights, native title, and the dispossession of Indigenous communities:
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Gender, Justice and Security Blog
The Gender, Justice, and Security blog is a space for critical dialogue around the six research themes of the Gender, Justice and Security Hub. The blog seeks to make academic and practice-led research and analysis available in an accessible way for a wide readership, explore contemporary issues relating to gender, justice and security and improve public debate.
Law and Policy Frameworks
For both SDGs 5 and 16 and the Women, Peace and Security agenda, successful implementation requires an alignment between global policy frames and centres of authority (such as the UN) and opportunities for change as they exist on the ground. For example, versions of ‘justice’, ‘accountability’, ‘participation’ or ‘protection’ favoured by donors and international agencies…
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Livelihood, Land & Rights
In the wake of violent conflict, demands for justice are often framed around accountability for violations of bodily integrity, but there is increasing recognition that ‘transitional’ justice and the WPS agenda should also address social and economic rights. This project identifies key gaps in the understanding of the relationship of these rights to gendered power relations…
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Masculinities and Sexualities
The Masculinities and Sexualities research stream interrogates the contribution of diverse forms of masculinity and sexuality to conflict dynamics, the new forms of gendered vulnerability around masculinity and sexuality produced in conflict, and the transformation of masculine and sexual identities by conflict…
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Methodological Innovation
The Methodological Innovation research stream focuses on assessing and improving the utility of research methodologies used in the security and justice sectors and providing expert methodological support to the Hub. The development of research here will form an important legacy of the Hub, as the project will be at the forefront of integrating methodological innovation with ethical considerations…
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Migration and Displacement
This research stream is organised around two premises: first, both conflict-induced displacement (international and internal) and migration in the post-conflict state are highly gendered; and second, the restructuring of the post-conflict state may give rise to competing tensions, including the creation of new opportunities and the exacerbation of ethnic, religious and gender-based divisions which deepen vulnerabilities…
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Transformation and Empowerment
The concepts of ‘transformative justice’ and ‘empowerment’ have become increasingly prevalent in literatures on achieving justice and gender equality. However, policies to transform conflict-affected societies by ‘building peace’, empowering populations and ‘dealing with the past’ through transitional justice, justice reform and rule of law promotion are usually poorly aligned with development policies…
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Recent Posts
This blog builds on the recent report “Gendered Dynamics of International Labour Migration: Migrant Women in Greater Beirut, Lebanon”, looking at migrant women’s lived experiences and work conditions in the Lebanese capital city, Beirut.
Paul Kirby, Hannah Wright and Aisling Swaine look at the UK’s contribution to the WPS Agenda, discussing the strengths and limitations of the UK’s work and providing recommendations for future WPS plans. The authors also summarise the distinctive characteristics of UK WPS, the persistent limits of state action, and the practical possibilities for a policy platform to come on their recent policy brief the future of the UK’s Women, Peace and Security Policy.
Why is Sierra Leone, which has been recognised as a model for successful postwar liberal peace and neoliberal development in Africa, experiencing repeated episodes of political violence? What does this trend of political violence, more prevalent at the local level, tell us about the country’s postwar peacebuilding and reconstruction strategy?
