Queering Women, Peace and Security

Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding

From queering peace and security in theory to queering in practice

Queering Women, Peace and Security fills this gap by applying queer theory to feminist efforts to ensure a gender perspective is promoted by the WPS agenda. Engaging with WPS documentation, examples of implementation, and interviews with practitioners, Jamie J. Hagen examines how the needs of LGBTQ people in conflict and peacebuilding are considered within the current architecture and practices. In particular, she identifies the interchangeable use of the words "gender" and "women," which betrays a larger analytical failure to think outside a binary categorization of gender. Informed by this analysis and interviews with leaders from Northern Ireland and Colombia, Hagen outlines steps those implementing the WPS agenda can take to work in collaboration with queer and trans communities in their gender, peace, and security work.

  • Addresses a gap in the understanding of how LGBTQ women factor within the United Nation's Women, Peace and Security agenda

  • Features interviews with practitioners of WPS to reveal their understandings of "gender" and "women"

  • Provides concrete recommendations for taking a more inclusive approach to gender in post-conflict peacebuilding

  • Includes insights from LGBTQ movements in Colombia and Northern Ireland

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction

  2. Queering WPS Through Localization and Global South Leadership

  3. Sex, Security, and Protecting Queer Lives

  4. Tracing Queer Absence in Women, Peace and Security

  5. Lesbian Rights Are Women's Rights

  6. Queering Gender in WPS

  7. Queer Futures for Implementing the WPS Agenda

  8. Coda: Why Queering WPS Matters
    Appendix: Interview

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