Columba Achilleos-Sarll
Biographic Data
| ID | 308767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Columba Achilleos-Sarll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Columba |
| FAMILY NAME | Achilleos-Sarll |
| SIGNATURE | ACHILLEOS-SARLL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1019-5476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Unhappy birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25
This year–2025–the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda marks its 25th anniversary, a milestone that invites both reflection and reckoning. WPS was born from United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, unanimously adopted on October 31, 2000, and few at the time could have foreseen how widely it would spread, becoming the largest thematic domain of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and sparking hundreds of national action…
Sun, sea and sexual violence
Why is sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) permissible in party tourism destinations, and what are the factors enabling its silencing? We use a 2019 case of alleged rape in the resort of Ayia Napa, Cyprus, as a starting-point from which to explore this question. Existing research on SGBV in tourism is limited, focusing mostly on survivors who are workers rather than tourists. Therefore, we develop an original framework that understands SGBV a…
Love, hope, and hopelessness
The book, Self, and Other Stories: Being, Knowing, Writing , is a collection of vignettes that describe “the wash and waves” (p. 9) of Laura J. Shepherd’s academic career. Each story reveals the affects and effects of (un)disciplining the ‘self’ in the neoliberal academy. In so doing, the book charts the oft-hidden obstacles faced by women academics, in particular feminist academics, including those who are marginalised and racialized as they see…
The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace
Ever more doubts are being raised over the ‘transformative potential’ of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and whether it brings us closer to realising feminist peace. Underpinning a current of WPS activism and scholarship is a radical conceptualisation of feminist peace rooted in anti-militarism, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism. This strand shares many commonalities with abolition feminism, yet the two literatures and movements ar…
Reconceptualizing Advocacy through the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
This article critically examines the embodied and relational politics of networked advocacy in the case of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the United Kingdom. Moving beyond liberal framings that position WPS advocacy as an attempt to overcome gender exclusion from peace and security policymaking, this article is concerned instead with the gendered, racialized, and classed logics and hierarchies (re)produced through the practice of W…
The (inter)visual politics of border security
Visuals, including photographs and data visualizations, play a crucial role in the politics of EU border security, both as an internal governance tool (e.g. in surveillance) and as an external means of communication/representation (e.g. in photojournalism). Combining scholarship on photographic representations of migration with literature on surveillance technologies and data visualizations, we argue that these visuals interact to reproduce gende…
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
In contrast to earlier, more celebratory accounts, more recent scholarship on the United Nations Security Council's Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda reveals the racial–colonial logics deeply woven into the very fabric of the agenda that contribute to reproducing hierarchies, inequalities, and exclusions. Building on this body of literature, this article investigates in more detail how race shapes the United Kingdom's engagement with and ins…
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy
Almost a decade after Sweden first declared that it would follow a feminist foreign policy (FFP), a further eleven countries from across Europe, North and South America, and North and West Africa have adopted, or have signaled an interest in potentially adopting, an FFP in the future. These developments have been accompanied by a growing body of feminist scholarship. Although still in its infancy, this literature can generally be divided between …
Narrating the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Since the passage of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 on ‘Women, Peace and Security’ (WPS), a large volume of scholarship has developed around the WPS agenda, to which Laura J. Shepherd has made significant contributions. Her new book, Narrating the Women, Peace and Security agenda, offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the formation of the agenda as a policy framework. The book's richness, brevity, theoretical s…
Interrogating the “local” in Women, Peace and Security
The “local” plays an important yet ambiguous role in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. In each of our PhD research projects, the term “local” came up frequently during our fieldwork: in readings, in interviews, and in policy and advocacy documents. The local is often used as a descriptor for both a place (the “everyday”) and a group of actors (the “local population”), which for WPS often refers to the constituency of “women and girls” l…
Seeing' the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Examining the visual (re)production of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda through UK national action plans and annual reports to parliament, this article proposes a new direction for WPS research. The visual politics of WPS, which affects both how the agenda is enacted and how it is encountered, has been largely understudied. To date, WPS scholarship has focused predominantly on linguistic modes of communication, neglecting both the visua…
Gender, UN peacebuilding, and the politics of space
Laura J. Shepherd foregrounds her latest book Gender, UN Peacebuilding, and the Politics of Space: Locating Legitimacy in a discussion of hope. She locates hope within the subject matter – by highlighting that the United Nations (UN) and its peacebuilding architecture is founded, and partially constructed, on a commitment to hope; the normative hope that the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (UNPBC) will integrate a gender perspective acros…
Saving the Security State
The ongoing war on terror, the election of Donald Trump to the office of US President, and the tragic Florida school shooting on 14 February 2018 provide the American backdrop to current discourses of racialized and gendered humanitarianism. These events, their attendant discourses, subjects and technologies affirm the timely significance of Inderpal Grewal’s latest book, Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century Ame…
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy
Almost a decade after Sweden first declared that it would follow a feminist foreign policy (FFP), a further eleven countries from across Europe, North and South America, and North and West Africa have adopted, or have signaled an interest in potentially adopting, an FFP in the future. These developments have been accompanied by a growing body of feminist scholarship. Although still in its infancy, this literature can generally be divided between …
Narrating the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Since the passage of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 on ‘Women, Peace and Security’ (WPS), a large volume of scholarship has developed around the WPS agenda, to which Laura J. Shepherd has made significant contributions. Her new book, Narrating the Women, Peace and Security agenda, offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the formation of the agenda as a policy framework. The book's richness, brevity, theoretical s…
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
In contrast to earlier, more celebratory accounts, more recent scholarship on the United Nations Security Council's Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda reveals the racial–colonial logics deeply woven into the very fabric of the agenda that contribute to reproducing hierarchies, inequalities, and exclusions. Building on this body of literature, this article investigates in more detail how race shapes the United Kingdom's engagement with and ins…
Interrogating the “local” in Women, Peace and Security
The “local” plays an important yet ambiguous role in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. In each of our PhD research projects, the term “local” came up frequently during our fieldwork: in readings, in interviews, and in policy and advocacy documents. The local is often used as a descriptor for both a place (the “everyday”) and a group of actors (the “local population”), which for WPS often refers to the constituency of “women and girls” l…
Seeing' the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Examining the visual (re)production of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda through UK national action plans and annual reports to parliament, this article proposes a new direction for WPS research. The visual politics of WPS, which affects both how the agenda is enacted and how it is encountered, has been largely understudied. To date, WPS scholarship has focused predominantly on linguistic modes of communication, neglecting both the visua…
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace
Ever more doubts are being raised over the ‘transformative potential’ of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and whether it brings us closer to realising feminist peace. Underpinning a current of WPS activism and scholarship is a radical conceptualisation of feminist peace rooted in anti-militarism, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism. This strand shares many commonalities with abolition feminism, yet the two literatures and movements ar…
The (inter)visual politics of border security
Visuals, including photographs and data visualizations, play a crucial role in the politics of EU border security, both as an internal governance tool (e.g. in surveillance) and as an external means of communication/representation (e.g. in photojournalism). Combining scholarship on photographic representations of migration with literature on surveillance technologies and data visualizations, we argue that these visuals interact to reproduce gende…
Reconceptualizing Advocacy through the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
This article critically examines the embodied and relational politics of networked advocacy in the case of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the United Kingdom. Moving beyond liberal framings that position WPS advocacy as an attempt to overcome gender exclusion from peace and security policymaking, this article is concerned instead with the gendered, racialized, and classed logics and hierarchies (re)produced through the practice of W…
Gender, UN peacebuilding, and the politics of space
Laura J. Shepherd foregrounds her latest book Gender, UN Peacebuilding, and the Politics of Space: Locating Legitimacy in a discussion of hope. She locates hope within the subject matter – by highlighting that the United Nations (UN) and its peacebuilding architecture is founded, and partially constructed, on a commitment to hope; the normative hope that the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (UNPBC) will integrate a gender perspective acros…
Saving the Security State
The ongoing war on terror, the election of Donald Trump to the office of US President, and the tragic Florida school shooting on 14 February 2018 provide the American backdrop to current discourses of racialized and gendered humanitarianism. These events, their attendant discourses, subjects and technologies affirm the timely significance of Inderpal Grewal’s latest book, Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century Ame…
Interrogating the “local” in Women, Peace and Security
The “local” plays an important yet ambiguous role in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. In each of our PhD research projects, the term “local” came up frequently during our fieldwork: in readings, in interviews, and in policy and advocacy documents. The local is often used as a descriptor for both a place (the “everyday”) and a group of actors (the “local population”), which for WPS often refers to the constituency of “women and girls” l…
Seeing' the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Examining the visual (re)production of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda through UK national action plans and annual reports to parliament, this article proposes a new direction for WPS research. The visual politics of WPS, which affects both how the agenda is enacted and how it is encountered, has been largely understudied. To date, WPS scholarship has focused predominantly on linguistic modes of communication, neglecting both the visua…
Narrating the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Since the passage of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 on ‘Women, Peace and Security’ (WPS), a large volume of scholarship has developed around the WPS agenda, to which Laura J. Shepherd has made significant contributions. Her new book, Narrating the Women, Peace and Security agenda, offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the formation of the agenda as a policy framework. The book's richness, brevity, theoretical s…
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
In contrast to earlier, more celebratory accounts, more recent scholarship on the United Nations Security Council's Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda reveals the racial–colonial logics deeply woven into the very fabric of the agenda that contribute to reproducing hierarchies, inequalities, and exclusions. Building on this body of literature, this article investigates in more detail how race shapes the United Kingdom's engagement with and ins…
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy
Almost a decade after Sweden first declared that it would follow a feminist foreign policy (FFP), a further eleven countries from across Europe, North and South America, and North and West Africa have adopted, or have signaled an interest in potentially adopting, an FFP in the future. These developments have been accompanied by a growing body of feminist scholarship. Although still in its infancy, this literature can generally be divided between …
The (inter)visual politics of border security
Visuals, including photographs and data visualizations, play a crucial role in the politics of EU border security, both as an internal governance tool (e.g. in surveillance) and as an external means of communication/representation (e.g. in photojournalism). Combining scholarship on photographic representations of migration with literature on surveillance technologies and data visualizations, we argue that these visuals interact to reproduce gende…
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace
Ever more doubts are being raised over the ‘transformative potential’ of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and whether it brings us closer to realising feminist peace. Underpinning a current of WPS activism and scholarship is a radical conceptualisation of feminist peace rooted in anti-militarism, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism. This strand shares many commonalities with abolition feminism, yet the two literatures and movements ar…
Reconceptualizing Advocacy through the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
This article critically examines the embodied and relational politics of networked advocacy in the case of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the United Kingdom. Moving beyond liberal framings that position WPS advocacy as an attempt to overcome gender exclusion from peace and security policymaking, this article is concerned instead with the gendered, racialized, and classed logics and hierarchies (re)produced through the practice of W…
Unhappy birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25
This year–2025–the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda marks its 25th anniversary, a milestone that invites both reflection and reckoning. WPS was born from United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, unanimously adopted on October 31, 2000, and few at the time could have foreseen how widely it would spread, becoming the largest thematic domain of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and sparking hundreds of national action…
Sun, sea and sexual violence
Why is sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) permissible in party tourism destinations, and what are the factors enabling its silencing? We use a 2019 case of alleged rape in the resort of Ayia Napa, Cyprus, as a starting-point from which to explore this question. Existing research on SGBV in tourism is limited, focusing mostly on survivors who are workers rather than tourists. Therefore, we develop an original framework that understands SGBV a…
Love, hope, and hopelessness
The book, Self, and Other Stories: Being, Knowing, Writing , is a collection of vignettes that describe “the wash and waves” (p. 9) of Laura J. Shepherd’s academic career. Each story reveals the affects and effects of (un)disciplining the ‘self’ in the neoliberal academy. In so doing, the book charts the oft-hidden obstacles faced by women academics, in particular feminist academics, including those who are marginalised and racialized as they see…
The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy
Gender, Security, and Conflict (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Scholarship (5 works)