“Land that we call our own:” Place-based Justice

24 Jan 2023

How does place matter in the quest for justice and peace? On August 13th, 2022, my family, friends, and relatives in Uganda organized an event attended by hundreds of people in my ancestral...

Preparing for Peace While Ready for War: Considering the Involvement of International Organizations in Ukraine’s WPS Agenda

2 Dec 2022

Well before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, international organizations (IOs) played a key role in the conceptualization and implementation of Ukraine’s Women, Peace, and...

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Canada’s domestic WPS priority?

21 Sep 2022

Canada is advancing its leadership role in promoting the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda internationally, the Elsie Initiative being proof of one such effort. But the question here is...

WPS at the EU: How States Drive the Agenda

1 Sep 2022

In the European Union (EU), some states are more receptive to the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda than others. Sweden has the world’s most advanced feminist foreign policy while Hungary...

No Women, Peace and Security Without Addressing Gendered Risk Eroded by COVID-19: Perspectives from Canada

10 Aug 2022

Globally, countries are considering United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda as a tool for advancing gender equality and empowering women....

Can Canada Come to the Rescue? The Fall of Afghanistan and the WPS agenda

1 Aug 2022

The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is more important than ever as the global spotlight has moved away from Afghanistan and onto the next military engagement in Ukraine. Afghan women have...

“Justice is Lived”: Women’s Senses of Justice and Reparations After Wartime Sexual Violence in Northern Uganda

14 Feb 2022

Most scholarly literature on wartime sexual violence focuses on legally bound approaches to justice, limiting it to retribution for a legal wrong; yet women emphasize that justice is pluralistic...

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