Gender, Justice and Security: Structural Challenges, Feminist Innovations and Radical Futures

Gender, Justice and Security: Structural Challenges, Feminist Innovations and Radical Futures is a synthesis of Gender, Justice and Security Hub’s key findings and recommendations at the thematic, project, country and Hub-wide levels. Collectively authored by 150 Hub members, it highlights Hub-wide analysis and reflections, findings and recommendations from the streams and projects and individual Hub members’ voices.

The Report provides a holistic view of the Gender, Justice and Security Hub’s five years of interdisciplinary, transnational, multi-partnership research at the project, country, thematic and Hub-wide levels. It is designed as a cohesive narrative examining how Hub researchers are expanding the gender justice evidence base, how its projects connect and build upon one another and how the collective work of the Hub addresses pressing global, national, and local intractable challenges. The Report was also designed so that each Section, Chapter and Project Profile could be used as a distinct research resource focusing on specific geographies, thematic areas, and research methodologies. The combination of its textual whole and its more targeted segments are intended to make this a resource of broad interest and use.

“The report, the projects and the research themes imagine radically transformed futures but are rooted in the actual daily lives of women as lived and experienced in the world today. They question existing orthodoxies and urge a respect for differences. They prioritise the voices of vulnerable and marginalied women. They insist on participation and democracy as an overarching framework. In this way, some of the best minds and practitioners working in the field of women, peace and security have come together to stake a claim for our future.” Radhika Coomaraswamy