Outi Donovan

Biographic Data

ID1667643
NAMEOuti Donovan
GIVEN NAMESOuti
FAMILY NAMEDonovan
SIGNATUREDONOVAN O
AFFILIATIONSGriffith University
ORCID0000-0003-2118-6177
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The Responsibility to Protect at a Crossroads

    Open AccessOuti Donovan, Eglantine Staunton et al.ARTICLEGlobal Responsibility to Protect2025

    In 2025, a new – and for the first time in the history of the journal, all female – editorial team has taken the lead of Global Responsibility to Protect (GP2P). We would first like to commend the outgoing editorial team – Adrian Gallagher, Charles Hunt, and Cecilia Jacob – for their outstanding work and contributions to the journal. Under their leadership, GP2P has published ground-breaking research on atrocity prevention and other cognate field…

  • Between contested narratives and transformative actions

    Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos, Outi DonovanARTICLEInternational Feminist Journal of…2025Cited by: 1References: 5

    In recent years,“digitalization” has made its way into the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. While none of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) on WPS mentions digitalization, it has increasingly entered the discourse, policy, and practice around the agenda. In this article, we cast an initial eye on the conceptualization and implementation of digitalization within the WPS agenda. We do so through a three-step analysis o…

  • Gendering Zoom Diplomacy

    Open AccessOuti DonovanARTICLEInternational Studies Perspectives2024References: 24

    In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent emergence of “Zoom diplomacy,” scholarship on digital diplomacy has shifted attention from the nexus between social media and foreign policy to exploring the use of digital technologies in diplomatic encounters. While these studies have generated important insights on the affordances and limitations of digital diplomacy, we know much less about the impact of digitalization on the gendered hi…

  • Conflict and Covid-19

    Open AccessOuti DonovanARTICLEInternational Relations2024

    What happens when conflicts collide with major disease pandemics? Weak or fragmented institutions, contested legitimacy of authorities, overstretched or destroyed health sector, crowded refugee camps and population flows are but some of the characteristics of conflict-affected societies rendering them vulnerable to pandemics such as Covid-19. Importantly, societal crises are deeply gendered; women and men experience conflicts and are affected by …

  • Promise or peril? Exploring the gender dimension of pragmatic peacebuilding

    Open AccessOuti DonovanARTICLEInternational Affairs2023Cited by: 1

    International efforts to manage conflict, instability and war-to-peace transitions have undergone a change. Where 'liberal peace' once informed peacebuilding strategies, international agencies now frame their work with recourse to 'sustaining peace'. This change signals a shift towards pragmatism in thinking about conflict and peace-making in the face of the limitations of liberal peace. What is notable in the move to pragmatic modes of peacebuil…

  • Norm Contestation and Pragmatic Ethics

    Open AccessOuti DonovanARTICLEJournal of Global Security Studies2021References: 18

    Approaches variously described as critical, reflexive, postpositivist, and agonistic constructivism reject the idea that the meaning of a norm can be fixed. These approaches look instead to the role that discursive practice plays in repeatedly constructing meaning. While the focus on how discourse shapes the meaning of a norm can tell us something about the ongoing social significance of that norm, it does not answer the question of whether that …

  • Trading Freedoms for Protection

    Outi DonovanARTICLEGlobal Responsibility to Protect2021

    Much has been written on the 2011 intervention in Libya and its implications to the R2P principle, but we know less about the lived experience of protection in a context where the post-intervention responsibility for protecting civilians was quickly transferred to the interim authorities who had limited governance capacity. This has resulted in ‘localised protection’ where militias, tribal elders, and family members constitute the main actors pro…

  • Silencing the past in Ugandan schools. The role of education in reconciliation processes

    Simone Datzberger, Outi DonovanARTICLEPeacebuilding2018

    This article assesses how reconciliation in post-conflict Uganda is currently approached in the country’s education sector. It highlights that education is in the main equated with economic development thereby side-lining the legacies of past conflicts and social injustices. In the view of Uganda’s highly politicised reconciliation process, this may not come as a surprise. Interviewees pointed to a general fear, that addressing past conflicts in …

  • Changing ideas, changing norms

    Open AccessOuti DonovanARTICLECooperation and Conflict2018Cited by: 3References: 12

    Whilst much has been written on emergence of new norms in international politics, we know significantly less about changes to the ideas and assumptions that underpin such norms. Examined at micro-level, most norms consist of a set of ideas and assumptions that form the basis of what is considered as appropriate, legitimate or even the required thing to do. Far from being stable, ideational constitutions of norms can undergo significant changes in…