Gender

Opinion – Gender, Ukraine and Imagining a Just, Sustainable Peace

Keshab Giri • Jul 20 2025 • Articles

Building sustainable and just peace rests on the inclusive recollection of painful events shaping the collective memory.

A Vindication for African Women in the Adaptation and Mitigation Policy-Making Process

Aya Kamil • Jul 14 2025 • Articles

Gender responsive measures must be substantial, a step away from performative virtue signaling, and not falling prey to pink and green washing.

Interview – Alexandra Phelan

E-International Relations • Jun 17 2025 • Features

Alexandra Phelan explores insurgent legitimation, gender, and political violence, with a focus on Latin America, terrorism, and post-conflict transitions.

Donald Trump’s War on Global Development

Trump’s policies highlight a far-right backwardness that impacts the global development world exponentially; whether those in power can sustain the impacts is to be seen.

Faith in Transition: A Week Inside a Gender Surgery Clinic

Mehrdad Alipour • Apr 24 2025 • Articles

Islamic law does not inherently oppose non-binary gender and/or sex, and certain Muslim jurists have advanced compelling arguments for an alternative body politics.

Extractivism and Resistance: Gendered Perspectives on the Global Resource Economy

Brianna Nicole Hernandez • Feb 14 2025 • Articles

Moving beyond extractivism is essential for transforming the way societies interact with the environment and ensuring sustainable development.

Gendered Memory and Mass Violence: Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Holocaust

Anneliese Schenk-Day • May 28 2024 • Articles

A more nuanced discussion of women’s experiences during mass violence from all angles and perspectives, victim, perpetrator, rescuer, and combatants is vital to understanding mass violence.

Opinion – Gendered Digital Repression in Myanmar’s Online Dissent

Isabella Aung • May 4 2024 • Articles

The case of Myanmar highlights how autocrats are leveraging social media as a political tool to not only react to but also proactively deter women’s online activism.

Sexual Violence and War

Rosie Walters • Dec 8 2023 • Student Features

Sexual violence in conflict is a continuation or escalation of gendered violence towards women and men in peacetime – much of which takes place inside the home.

Sexuality and Borders

Rosie Walters • Nov 28 2023 • Student Features

The claims of states in the Global North to be promoting LGBTQ+ rights around the world can serve to mask those same states’ violations of the rights of LGBTQ+ people from the Global South.

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