Unruly wives in the household : Toward feminist genealogies for peace research

Feminist scholars and activists have historically been written out of peace research, despite their strong presence in the early stages of the field. In this article, we develop the concept of "wifesization" to illustrate the process through which feminist and feminized interventions have been reduced to appendages of the field, their contributions appropriated for its development but unworthy of mention as independent producers of knowledge. Wifesization has trickle-down effects, not just for knowledge production, but also for peacebuilding practice. We propose new feminist genealogies for peace research that challenge and redefine the narrow boundaries of the field, in the form of a patchwork quilt including early theorists, utopian writing, oral history, and indigenous knowledge production. Reflections draw on the authors' engagements with several archives rich in cultures and languages of peace, not reducible to a "single story." Recovering wifesized feminist contributions to peace research, our article offers a new way of constructing peace research canons that gives weight to long-standing, powerful, and plural feminist voices, in order to make peace scholarship more inclusive and ultimately richer.Peer reviewe

Storytelling in den Vereinten Nationen: Mahbub ul Haq und menschliche Entwicklung

Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass Mitarbeiter der Vereinten Nationen eine wichtige Rolle in Prozessen des ideellen Wandels auf internationaler Ebene spielen können, beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag mit einer bestimmten Form individuellem Einflusses – dem storytelling. Mein Verständnis von storytelling als Einflusstaktik kombiniert dabei kollektive Elemente der soziologischen Praxistheorie mit den reflexiven, akteursbezogenen Überlegungen von Michel de Certeau. Ich analysiere storytelling anhand von drei analytischen Elementen: einem (chronologischen) Plot, einer Reihe von Charakteren und einem interpretativen Thema – die jeweils ihre Wirkung im Zusammenspiel mit der Subjektivität ihres storytellers entfalten. Ich illustriere diese theoretischen Überlegungen mit dem Fall von Mahbub ul Haq, dem es als Sonderberater des United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-Administrators zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre gelungen ist, die Idee der menschlichen Entwicklung im System der Vereinten Nationen und der internationalen Entwicklungspolitik zu etablieren

Symposium: Debating (Wartime) Sexual Violence

[This is a post-publication review symposium] Significant debates in the literature on (conflict-related) gendered and sexualized violence have not been featured in the pages of International Studies Quarterly, which has only published a few pieces that focus explicitly on sexual violence (Eriksson Baaz and Stern 2009 and Leiby 2009). This forum on Sara Meger’s article on “The Fetishization of Sexual Violence in International Security” is thus a welcome occasion to reflect on the state of the literature on sexual violence in international-studies scholarship. [...

Good Practices in Addressing Human Security through National Human Development Reports

A systematic and detailed review of National and Regional Human Development Reports (HDRs) on human security. It is divided in two parts: the first part examines the process of reports' conception, elaboration and dissemination, following the experience of four reports partially funded by the UN Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS) between 2009 and 2012; the analysis is complemented with a case study of the Latvian human security report published in 2003. The second part focuses on the contents of the reports, analysing a sample of sixteen Regional and National Human Development Reports, plus one non-NHDR report