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Launch of Queer/Feminist Analysis of Peace & Security Framework Brief

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This analytical framework combines the insights of feminist and queer activism and theory with regards to conflict, peace and security.

Date(s)
May 27, 2024
Location
Online
Time
15:00 - 16:00
Price
Free
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Overview

This event launches the analytical framework primarily developed during a workshop hosted at Queen's University Belfast in September and informed by additional consultation. Please join us to learn about the five key areas we view as important for understanding and bringing forward this framework:

  1. Queer/ feminist approaches have a shared understanding of conflict drivers
  2. Queer/ feminist approaches highlight gender and SOGIESC impacts of violence
  3. Queer/ feminist approaches recognise more complex realities beyond men as perpetrators and women and queer people as victims
  4. Queer/ feminist approaches reject the instrumentalisation and cooptation of rights by actors who then deprioritise them when inconvenient
  5. Queer/ feminist approaches expand definitions of peace and security

You will also have an opportunity to hear from some of those who helped develop the framework. Following the overview of the brief and speaker presentations there will be time for a Q & A, with an emphasis on using this framework in practice.

 

About the analytical framework

Feminist and LGBTQIA rights activists have spent decades analysing conflict, addressing the gender- and SOGIESC-differential impacts of violence, and influencing policy and practice at local, national, regional, and global levels There has been some success with certain movements becoming more intersectional, a number of humanitarian and peacebuilding organisations taking steps towards inclusivity, and increasing talk of ‘queering WPS’ in policy spaces.

However, there is confusion around how women’s and LGBTQIA rights intersect in conflict, if gender, peace and security efforts should engage with LGBTQIA rights, and how to do so. Actors take an array of approaches, including contradictory ones, those that conflate gender with a male/female binary, and those that exclude LBTQ women. There is disquiet over cooptation, instrumentalisation, dilution of both movements, and concentration on cis gay men’s realities (‘easier’ to investigate and present in policy spaces) contributing to further exclusion.

This analytical framework combines the insights of feminist and queer activism and theory with regards to conflict, peace and security. We stress the need for nuance and context specificity and hope it will be a useful resource that can be localised by activists and used to inform policy and programming.

 

Speakers

Basira Paigham is an Afghan LGBTIQ human rights defender. She advocates for the recognition, protection, and legalization of the Afghan LGBTIQ community, and fights for their human rights, equality, and freedom. She is the co-founder of the organization: Afghan LGBT.

Meena Sharma is a dedicated peace practitioner from Kathmandu, Nepal. Her conviction lies in ensuring that every individual in the community is entitled to a life filled with peace, justice, freedom, and dignity.Currently, she is leading an organization "The Institute of Human Rights Communication Nepal" (IHRICON), and a network called Children As Zone of Peace, (CZOP). She had been able to combine over a decade and a half of expertise in Gender Equity Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), peacebuilding, media, and human rights. Her work focuses on building new knowledge from practice, especially in the areas of women's rights, empowerment, and transformative feminist leadership. She has worked with more than 200 civil society organizations in Nepal.

 

Co-hosts

Jamie J. Hagen is a lecturer in International Relations at Queen’s University Belfast, where she is the founding co-director of the Center for Gender in Politics. Her work sits at the intersection of gender, security studies, and queer theory. Hagen brings a feminist, anti-racist approach to her work, bridging gaps between academics, policy, and activist spaces. She was the lead researcher on a British Academy Innovation Fellowship (2022-2023) focusing on improving engagement with lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer women in Women, Peace, and Security Programming. She is co-editor of the edited volume Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to Study of Political Violence (BUP).

Chitra Nagarajan is an adviser, programme manager, researcher, and trainer focusing on conflict analysis and sensitivity; climate security; disability; gender; human rights; social inclusion; violence against women and girls; (women’s) economic justice, women, peace and security; and peacebuilding.

Centre for Gender in Politics The Centre considers how gender impacts politics in Northern Ireland, foreign policy, peace and security, reproductive justice, responding to climate change and the day to day lives of students at Queen’s University Belfast. The Centre aims to promote interdisciplinary and cross-faculty dialogue at Queen’s. It seeks to engage with policymakers and sustain connections with the wider community of feminist and LGBTQ+ activists and cultural organisations in Belfast and beyond. The Centre therefore prioritizes initiatives that support collaborations between civil society, academics as well as students in the Queen’s University Belfast community.

 

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Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
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