Dr Marsha Henry and Dr Aiko Holvikivi

This course is available on the MSc in Gender, Peace and Security. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

Students must have completed Introduction to Gender, Peace and Security (GI425).

Advanced Issues in Gender, Peace and Security provides an in-depth examination of peace and security issues from a gender perspective. The course further explores issues emerging from, and beyond, the Women Peace and Security agenda (WPS) and specifically considers areas not covered in as much depth as in the prerequisite (GI425) course, including:1) critical approaches to peace and security: feminist foreign policy; queer perspectives on conflict and post-conflict spaces; GPS in cultural perspective 2) understanding implementation: perspectives on national action plans; complex humanitarian emergencies; and peace and security case studies 3) violence, masculinities and accountability: conflict-related gender-based violence; men, peace and security; and redress, repair and reparation for gendered harm.  The course ends with a workshop.

This course runs in Lent Term. It contains both asynchronous and interactive teaching and learning elements.

Students will have a reading week in week 6 in line with departmental policy.

Essay title, 2-page PowerPoint presentation for written feedback and to present at workshop.

Students can present this work at a workshop at the end of term. Students will be organised into panels and present to the full group and provide peer feedback to each other’s work. 

Cockburn, C, (2004) ‘The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace’, in Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman (eds), Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones (Los Angeles: University of California Press); ‘The Futures of Women, Peace and Security', (2016) special issue of International Affairs, eds Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd (Vol. 92, No. 2, March); ‘Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict’, (2018) eds Dina Hayes, Naomi Cahn, Fionnuoula Ni Aoláin & Nahla Valji, Oxford University Press

Essay (100%, 3000 words) in the ST.

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