Cristín O’rourke
Biographic Data
| ID | 258549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristín O’rourke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristín |
| FAMILY NAME | O’rourke |
| SIGNATURE | O’ROURKE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7217-5833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gender, conflict and the environment: Surfacing connections in international humanitarian law
Both gender and the environment have traditionally been positioned at the periphery of international humanitarian law (IHL). In recent decades, there has been important progress in moving both concerns closer to its centre; to date, however, an understanding of the intersection of gender and the environment in the legal regulation of armed conflict remains largely underdeveloped. Nevertheless, as the present article documents, there are important…
International Law, Covid-19 and Feminist Engagement with the United Nations Security Council: The End of the Affair
The gendered implications of COVID-19, in particular in terms of gender-based violence and the gendered division of care work, have secured some prominence, and ignited discussion about prospects for a ‘feminist recovery’. In international law terms, feminist calls for a response to the pandemic have privileged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), conditioned—I argue—by two decades of the pursuit of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agen…
Feminist Dialogues on International Law: Successes, Tensions, Futures
Cedaw and the Security Council: Enhancing Women's Rights in Conflict
The proliferation of legal and normative standards regulating women's rights in conflict has been accompanied by concerns about their efficacy. The article examines the activities of the CEDAW Committee and the UN Security Council and considers how synergies might be advanced. The article finds that, while the Security Council has unique authority over UN system activities, sanctions and peacekeeping, the CEDAW Committee—as a human rights treaty …
Gender, violence and reparations in Northern Ireland: A story yet to be told
Both reparations and conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) have been marginal to the story of the Northern Ireland transition from conflict. Likewise, reparations provision has been scant and piecemeal. The article documents the highly partial and deeply inadequate approach to reparations for CRSV in Northern Ireland throughout and after the conflict. We contend that the inadequacies of this approach have been so deficient as to in fact obscure…
Buried in the Heart: Women, Complex Victimhood and the War in Northern Uganda
Buried in the Heart: Women, Complex Victimhood and the War in Northern Uganda." Gender & Development, 25(3), pp. 551–552
Feminist Strategy in International Law: Understanding Its Legal, Normative and Political Dimensions
While international law has typically waxed and waned in feminist favours, contemporary feminist engagements reveal a strongly critical, reflective thrust about the costs of engaging international law and the quality of ostensible gains. To inform this reflection, this article draws on feminist scholarship in international law – and a specific feminist campaign for the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Wo…
Developing Gender Principles for Dealing with the Legacy of the Past
This Note documents the motivations, process and challenges in developing the 10 Gender Principles for Dealing with the Legacy of the Past in Northern Ireland. The Principles are the outcome of a targeted intervention by a group of women from civil society and academia in Ireland and the UK to challenge the exclusions of ongoing negotiations to agree on a process to deal with the past. The Principles were shaped by a small-scale consultation with…
Databases of Transitional Justice Mechanisms and Contexts: Comparing Research Purposes and Design
1 Over the past decade, scholars researching the causes, forms and impacts of transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms have increasingly turned to cross-national databases to document cases, facilitate comparisons and develop causal analyses. Such research has been heralded as having the potential to address significant knowledge gaps in the field. However, to date, database research has produced patchy and contradictory findings. To interrogate why …
Advocating Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland: Local and Global Tensions
It is frequently claimed that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is more significant for the cultural, rather than legal, work that it does in reframing locally contested gender issues as the subject of international human rights. While this argument is well developed in respect of violence against women, CEDAW’s cultural traction is less clear in respect of women’s right to access safe and lega…
Feminist scholarship in transitional justice: A de-politicising impulse
Feminist Legal Method and the Study of Institutions
Consistent with feminist scholarship more broadly, feminist legal methodology is more clearly unified by a common objective—revealing and challenging the role of law in exacerbating women's inequality—than specific methods per se. Nevertheless, common methods and approaches to the feminist legal study of institutions can be discerned. This brief intervention will focus on describing these common methods and approaches, explaining how they differ …
S. Sharat, Gender, Shame and Sexual Violence: The Voices of Witnesses and Court Members at War Crimes Tribunals
Peace Agreements or Pieces of Paper? The Impact of Unsc Resolution 1325 on Peace Processes and Their Agreements
On the 31 October 2000 UNSC Resolution 1325 was adopted. The resolution provided for a range of measures aimed at the inclusion of women in the prevention, management and resolution of conflict. In particular, several of the resolution's provisions addressed the role of women and gender in peace negotiations and agreements. This article examines whether and how Resolution 1325 has impacted on the drafting of peace agreements. We analyse explicit …
Does Feminism Need a Theory of Transitional Justice? An Introductory Essay
This essay surveys feminist scholarship and praxis on transitional justice, examining its ongoing contribution to the conceptualization and design of transitional justice mechanisms. We examine some of the gender implications of a specifically ‘transitional’ theory of justice. The essay concludes by proposing that feminist theory should focus on how transitional justice debates help or hinder broader projects of securing material gains for women …
The People's Peace? Peace Agreements, Civil Society, and Participatory Democracy
This article, drawing on an extensive collection of peace agreements dating from 1990 until the present day, analyzes peace agreement provisions for civil society involvement and considers the extent to which peace agreements proffer new models of participatory democracy. We begin with some background and a short overview of political theory on participatory democracy, identifying key dilemmas. The body of the article sets out a comprehensive ana…
Peace Agreements or Pieces of Paper? The Impact of Unsc Resolution 1325 on Peace Processes and Their Agreements
On the 31 October 2000 UNSC Resolution 1325 was adopted. The resolution provided for a range of measures aimed at the inclusion of women in the prevention, management and resolution of conflict. In particular, several of the resolution's provisions addressed the role of women and gender in peace negotiations and agreements. This article examines whether and how Resolution 1325 has impacted on the drafting of peace agreements. We analyse explicit …
The People's Peace? Peace Agreements, Civil Society, and Participatory Democracy
This article, drawing on an extensive collection of peace agreements dating from 1990 until the present day, analyzes peace agreement provisions for civil society involvement and considers the extent to which peace agreements proffer new models of participatory democracy. We begin with some background and a short overview of political theory on participatory democracy, identifying key dilemmas. The body of the article sets out a comprehensive ana…
Does Feminism Need a Theory of Transitional Justice? An Introductory Essay
This essay surveys feminist scholarship and praxis on transitional justice, examining its ongoing contribution to the conceptualization and design of transitional justice mechanisms. We examine some of the gender implications of a specifically ‘transitional’ theory of justice. The essay concludes by proposing that feminist theory should focus on how transitional justice debates help or hinder broader projects of securing material gains for women …
Feminist scholarship in transitional justice: A de-politicising impulse
Cedaw and the Security Council: Enhancing Women's Rights in Conflict
The proliferation of legal and normative standards regulating women's rights in conflict has been accompanied by concerns about their efficacy. The article examines the activities of the CEDAW Committee and the UN Security Council and considers how synergies might be advanced. The article finds that, while the Security Council has unique authority over UN system activities, sanctions and peacekeeping, the CEDAW Committee—as a human rights treaty …
Buried in the Heart: Women, Complex Victimhood and the War in Northern Uganda
Buried in the Heart: Women, Complex Victimhood and the War in Northern Uganda." Gender & Development, 25(3), pp. 551–552
Databases of Transitional Justice Mechanisms and Contexts: Comparing Research Purposes and Design
1 Over the past decade, scholars researching the causes, forms and impacts of transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms have increasingly turned to cross-national databases to document cases, facilitate comparisons and develop causal analyses. Such research has been heralded as having the potential to address significant knowledge gaps in the field. However, to date, database research has produced patchy and contradictory findings. To interrogate why …
Gender, violence and reparations in Northern Ireland: A story yet to be told
Both reparations and conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) have been marginal to the story of the Northern Ireland transition from conflict. Likewise, reparations provision has been scant and piecemeal. The article documents the highly partial and deeply inadequate approach to reparations for CRSV in Northern Ireland throughout and after the conflict. We contend that the inadequacies of this approach have been so deficient as to in fact obscure…
Advocating Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland: Local and Global Tensions
It is frequently claimed that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is more significant for the cultural, rather than legal, work that it does in reframing locally contested gender issues as the subject of international human rights. While this argument is well developed in respect of violence against women, CEDAW’s cultural traction is less clear in respect of women’s right to access safe and lega…
Feminist Dialogues on International Law: Successes, Tensions, Futures
Feminist Strategy in International Law: Understanding Its Legal, Normative and Political Dimensions
While international law has typically waxed and waned in feminist favours, contemporary feminist engagements reveal a strongly critical, reflective thrust about the costs of engaging international law and the quality of ostensible gains. To inform this reflection, this article draws on feminist scholarship in international law – and a specific feminist campaign for the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Wo…
Does Feminism Need a Theory of Transitional Justice? An Introductory Essay
This essay surveys feminist scholarship and praxis on transitional justice, examining its ongoing contribution to the conceptualization and design of transitional justice mechanisms. We examine some of the gender implications of a specifically ‘transitional’ theory of justice. The essay concludes by proposing that feminist theory should focus on how transitional justice debates help or hinder broader projects of securing material gains for women …
The People's Peace? Peace Agreements, Civil Society, and Participatory Democracy
This article, drawing on an extensive collection of peace agreements dating from 1990 until the present day, analyzes peace agreement provisions for civil society involvement and considers the extent to which peace agreements proffer new models of participatory democracy. We begin with some background and a short overview of political theory on participatory democracy, identifying key dilemmas. The body of the article sets out a comprehensive ana…
Peace Agreements or Pieces of Paper? The Impact of Unsc Resolution 1325 on Peace Processes and Their Agreements
On the 31 October 2000 UNSC Resolution 1325 was adopted. The resolution provided for a range of measures aimed at the inclusion of women in the prevention, management and resolution of conflict. In particular, several of the resolution's provisions addressed the role of women and gender in peace negotiations and agreements. This article examines whether and how Resolution 1325 has impacted on the drafting of peace agreements. We analyse explicit …
S. Sharat, Gender, Shame and Sexual Violence: The Voices of Witnesses and Court Members at War Crimes Tribunals
Feminist scholarship in transitional justice: A de-politicising impulse
Feminist Legal Method and the Study of Institutions
Consistent with feminist scholarship more broadly, feminist legal methodology is more clearly unified by a common objective—revealing and challenging the role of law in exacerbating women's inequality—than specific methods per se. Nevertheless, common methods and approaches to the feminist legal study of institutions can be discerned. This brief intervention will focus on describing these common methods and approaches, explaining how they differ …
Developing Gender Principles for Dealing with the Legacy of the Past
This Note documents the motivations, process and challenges in developing the 10 Gender Principles for Dealing with the Legacy of the Past in Northern Ireland. The Principles are the outcome of a targeted intervention by a group of women from civil society and academia in Ireland and the UK to challenge the exclusions of ongoing negotiations to agree on a process to deal with the past. The Principles were shaped by a small-scale consultation with…
Databases of Transitional Justice Mechanisms and Contexts: Comparing Research Purposes and Design
1 Over the past decade, scholars researching the causes, forms and impacts of transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms have increasingly turned to cross-national databases to document cases, facilitate comparisons and develop causal analyses. Such research has been heralded as having the potential to address significant knowledge gaps in the field. However, to date, database research has produced patchy and contradictory findings. To interrogate why …
Advocating Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland: Local and Global Tensions
It is frequently claimed that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is more significant for the cultural, rather than legal, work that it does in reframing locally contested gender issues as the subject of international human rights. While this argument is well developed in respect of violence against women, CEDAW’s cultural traction is less clear in respect of women’s right to access safe and lega…
Gender, violence and reparations in Northern Ireland: A story yet to be told
Both reparations and conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) have been marginal to the story of the Northern Ireland transition from conflict. Likewise, reparations provision has been scant and piecemeal. The article documents the highly partial and deeply inadequate approach to reparations for CRSV in Northern Ireland throughout and after the conflict. We contend that the inadequacies of this approach have been so deficient as to in fact obscure…
Buried in the Heart: Women, Complex Victimhood and the War in Northern Uganda
Buried in the Heart: Women, Complex Victimhood and the War in Northern Uganda." Gender & Development, 25(3), pp. 551–552
Feminist Strategy in International Law: Understanding Its Legal, Normative and Political Dimensions
While international law has typically waxed and waned in feminist favours, contemporary feminist engagements reveal a strongly critical, reflective thrust about the costs of engaging international law and the quality of ostensible gains. To inform this reflection, this article draws on feminist scholarship in international law – and a specific feminist campaign for the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Wo…
Cedaw and the Security Council: Enhancing Women's Rights in Conflict
The proliferation of legal and normative standards regulating women's rights in conflict has been accompanied by concerns about their efficacy. The article examines the activities of the CEDAW Committee and the UN Security Council and considers how synergies might be advanced. The article finds that, while the Security Council has unique authority over UN system activities, sanctions and peacekeeping, the CEDAW Committee—as a human rights treaty …
International Law, Covid-19 and Feminist Engagement with the United Nations Security Council: The End of the Affair
The gendered implications of COVID-19, in particular in terms of gender-based violence and the gendered division of care work, have secured some prominence, and ignited discussion about prospects for a ‘feminist recovery’. In international law terms, feminist calls for a response to the pandemic have privileged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), conditioned—I argue—by two decades of the pursuit of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agen…
Feminist Dialogues on International Law: Successes, Tensions, Futures
Gender, conflict and the environment: Surfacing connections in international humanitarian law
Both gender and the environment have traditionally been positioned at the periphery of international humanitarian law (IHL). In recent decades, there has been important progress in moving both concerns closer to its centre; to date, however, an understanding of the intersection of gender and the environment in the legal regulation of armed conflict remains largely underdeveloped. Nevertheless, as the present article documents, there are important…
Political science (14 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economic Justice (5 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (5 works) · Human rights (5 works)