Title: Feminist Challenges to the Co-optation of WPS: A Conversation with Joy Onyesoh and Madeleine Rees
Abstract:In this conversation with Catia C. Confortini (former International Vice President), Madeleine Rees (Secretary General) and Joy Onyesoh (International President) reflect on the legacy of and prospects...In this conversation with Catia C. Confortini (former International Vice President), Madeleine Rees (Secretary General) and Joy Onyesoh (International President) reflect on the legacy of and prospects for Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s feminist advocacy on WPS. Drawing on Nigerian and transnational experiences they lament the sidestepping of WILPF’s feminist peace analysis in favor of an agenda co-opted by states and narrow, militarized security interests. At the same time, engagement with the state is not only a necessity, but an opening to transform the global governance system in the direction of feminist peace.Read More
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-06-12
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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