Lesley Pruitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Pruitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Pruitt |
| SIGNATURE | PRUITT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4428-4378 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Singing Peace Into Existence? Music and Peacebuilding in Australia
This article connects research on music and peacebuilding with an exploration of related Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of being, knowing and doing. To understand the vision and potential of music-based peacebuilding in Australia, we consider Indigenous-led music and culture festival Treaty in the Park as a timely case study. Engaging the concept of ‘resonance’, we illuminate how peacebuilding knowledge is grounded in place through so…
Youth Choreographing Peace: Dance in and Beyond the Refugee Camp
Recent scholarship examines key roles the arts may play in peacebuilding and highlights the importance of youth-led peacebuilding. Building on these literatures, we investigate how young people displaced by conflict dance for peace and in doing so offer insights into peacebuilding theory and practice. Drawing on the first author's experience working in Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi from 2018–2019 and 12 semi-structured interviews conducted from …
Prospects for intergenerational peace leadership: Reflections from Asia and the Pacific
In this article, we develop a model of intergenerational peace leadership (IPL) with a particular focus upon young women’s peace leadership. IPL remains under-theorised and under-recognised in both global policy and academic scholarship. We therefore outline and advocate for a young women-focussed IPL model as an opportunity for robust and sustainable peace leadership that aligns with broader UN-driven inclusive peace agendas. We begin the articl…
The making of 'Mary Poppins' migrants: Analysing German discourse on displaced Ukrainians 2022-23 through fictional film
Building on insights from Migration Studies and International Relations, we investigate constructions of Ukrainians who arrived in Germany due to conflict-induced displacement during the first year of the Russian-Ukraine war. To do so, we analysed reporting on Ukrainian women in two German major weekly news outlets (Der Spiegel and Die Zeit). Here we take a unique approach - drawing on key points of, and illustrative quotes from, that analysis, a…
Children & Migration: Political Constructions and Contestations
This article demonstrates the importance of paying attention to the roles children and childhood play in policy making relating to migration, especially since the outcomes of these debates have serious implications for children and for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers of all ages. The article considers a case study examining political representations of migrant, asylum seeker, and refugee children from 2015 to 2016 in the United Kingdom Par…
Youth, peace & security: Gender matters in Asia and the Pacific
Youth have long been involved in informal peacebuilding, and the United Nations’ recent adoption of the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Agenda makes space for more formal involvement. These policy developments echo scholarship highlighting gender as crucial to understanding the roles and experiences of young people across a range of conflict-affected settings. This understanding is necessary to ensuring gender-equitable youth peacebuilding effort…
Too young to run? Young political candidates and the 2020 Victorian local government elections
This article analyses the demographics, party affiliation, political motivations, and personal experiences of young people in Australia who run for elected office. By analysing a survey conducted with 51 young political candidates who ran in the 2020 Victorian local government elections, we show that that the most under-represented groups include young women, young people with Indigenous heritage or from minority ethnic backgrounds, and young peo…
Participatory video: A new outlook for international relations research
This article considers the implications of incorporating participatory video in International Relations (IR) research. Drawing on existing aesthetic and visual IR research, I critically reflect on a case study incorporating participatory video in research investigating young women’s leadership in Asia and the Pacific. Through participatory video, young women redressed their common invisibility and challenged portrayals situating them as unable to…
Rethinking youth bulge theory in policy and scholarship: Incorporating Critical Gender Analysis
For decades 'youth bulge' theory has dominated understandings of youth in mainstream International Relations. Youth bulge theory has also become part of some public media analyses, mainstream political rhetoric, and even officially enshrined in the foreign policy of some states. Through the 'youth bulge' lens, youth-especially males-have been presented as current or future perpetrators of violence. However, this article argues that the youth bulg…
Making music in divided cities: Transforming the ethnoscape
In the phenomenon of the divided city – urban environments partitioned along ethno-religious lines as a result of war or conflict – projects seeking to bring segregated people together through community music activities face many operational and psychological obstacles. Divided cities are politically sustained, institutionally consolidated, and relentlessly territorialized by competing ethno-nationalist actors. They are highly resistant to peaceb…
Closed due to ‘flooding’? UK media representations of refugees and migrants in 2015–2016 – creating a crisis of borders
This article reports on a discourse analysis of high circulation news media sources in the United Kingdom, around six key events relating to migration in 2015–2016. This article argues that the dominant discourse in UK media constructed the increase in movements of people and applications for asylum as a ‘crisis of borders’. In this context, Europe’s borders were deemed problematically porous in enabling large numbers of people to enter. This por…
A Global South State’s Challenge to Gendered Global Cultures of Peacekeeping
This chapter explores the first all-female formed police unit (FFPU) in UN peacekeeping, deployed from India to Liberia. The FFPU has fostered important outcomes supporting the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. However, global norms that presume efforts can only be “legitimate” when conducted in ways that align with particular, Global North approaches can hinder implementation of the WPS agenda. Such norms marginalize differences that inter…
Gender and Age in the Construction of Male Youth in the European Migration “Crisis”
Displacement is clearly gendered; age also has a strong influence on outcomes and experiences for the displaced, including a significant impact on how they are understood by the public and policy makers. It is important to keep this in mind when considering how children and youth are understood within contexts of conflict and insecurity, how they are affected by these forces, and how they navigate their lives in these contexts, especially in seek…
Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation: Combating Civic Deficit
Abbott’s ‘budget crisis’, Cald women’s loss? Service providers explore the impact of funding cuts
Women have been disproportionately affected by funding cuts to services following the 2008 global financial crisis. Using a feminist intersectional analysis of austerity measures applied to family violence (FV) services in Victoria, Australia, including 11 service provider interviews, we find that: the Australian government drew on global narratives of austerity in constructing a 'budget crisis', with subsequent cuts to funds addressing FV; budge…
Youth, politics, and participation in a changing world
What options do young people have for enacting social and political change? Can traditional politics redeem itself in the eyes of youth? Can political leaders hear young people? Do they listen? What alternative avenues for politics might young people pursue or propose? What are their respective prospects and challenges? These are some key questions that arise when reading Young Citizens and Political Participation in a Digital Society, by Philipp…
Gendering the study of children and youth in peacebuilding
Building on the work of feminist scholars and others arguing for considering the ‘everyday’ in peace and conflict studies, this article applies a gendered lens to understanding young people's everyday experiences of peace and violence. It draws on case studies using participant observation and semi-structured interviews with peer leaders in programs that use dance and creative movement to involve young people in peacebuilding in the USA and Colom…
Multiculturalism at play: Young people and citizenship in Australia
This article analyzes an Australian theatre program that engaged diverse youth in (re)visioning citizenship and multiculturalism by creating new notions of belonging and altering perceptions of Aboriginal culture and its value in Australia. This kind of work – where young people's understandings of inclusion and diversity can be unsettled, critiqued, and developed – is crucial because current approaches to Australian multiculturalism tend to rely…
Putting participation on stage: Examining participatory theatre as an alternative site for political participation
Participation, it has been said, is a central lynchpin of citizenship and democracy. Unfortunately, studies have shown for some time that political participation is on the decline in most Western democracies. Particularly for scholars and policy analysts who define political participation in democracy purely as voting, party membership or in terms of a narrow ‘arena’ definition of politics, the conclusion is clear: levels of political illiteracy …
Reflections on Possibilities and Challenges of Discussing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Role-Play Simulations
Addressing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in international peace and security frameworks is crucial. Yet SGBV often remains silenced in the peace and security literature. Relatedly SGBV tends to be marginalised in the classroom. This can perpetuate challenges to achieving peace by producing graduates and practitioners who are neither knowledgeable about, nor prepared to deal with, SGBV in practice. To explore possibilities for engaging w…
The Women, Peace and Security agenda: Australia and the agency of girls
This article argues that young women and girls are significant stakeholders in peace and security efforts. Understanding their roles, views and capacity is essential to an adequate perspective on peace and security. Yet girls remain the most marginalised group when it comes to peace and security efforts globally. Gender- and age-based hierarchies often leave their interests ignored. Excluding girls hinders prospects for sustainable peace by denyi…
All-Female Police Contingents: Feminism and the Discourse of Armed Protection
This article focuses on women's involvement in peacekeeping operations and the introduction in 2007 of an all-female formed police unit (FFPU). Possible benefits and challenges of deploying all-female contingents in peace operations are considered and feminist theories of international relations are drawn upon to evaluate arguments for including women in peace and security missions. Media discourses on the Indian FFPU deployed to Liberia in 2007 …
Fixing the Girls’: Neoliberal Discourse and Girls' Participation in Peacebuilding
Does gender matter when planning youth peacebuilding projects? This article presents research findings from two youth peacebuilding projects – in Australia and Northern Ireland – and identifies several barriers to participation girls faced. It sheds light on reasons why girls participate in some peacebuilding activities but not others, highlighting the role of neoliberal discourse – placing the burden of responsibility for equal participation on …
Looking Back, Moving Forward: International Approaches to Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Based on a review of existing literature, this article provides an initial analysis of obstacles to addressing impunity for widespread conflict-related sexual violence. First, a background of trends of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in conflict is provided. The article then outlines why addressing impunity is important for building peace and ending conflict-related SGBV. Next, the article presents an overview of developments and mechanis…
Music, youth, and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
This article presents a preliminary analysis from a case study conducted in Northern Ireland. Participant observation and semi-structured interviewing were used to learn whether music might serve as a useful tool for engaging Northern Irish youth in peacebuilding. Obstacles and limitations certainly exist, but the data suggests that music can be used to engage youth in peacebuilding in three key ways: (1) music can be useful in bringing youth tog…
Closed due to ‘flooding’? UK media representations of refugees and migrants in 2015–2016 – creating a crisis of borders
This article reports on a discourse analysis of high circulation news media sources in the United Kingdom, around six key events relating to migration in 2015–2016. This article argues that the dominant discourse in UK media constructed the increase in movements of people and applications for asylum as a ‘crisis of borders’. In this context, Europe’s borders were deemed problematically porous in enabling large numbers of people to enter. This por…
Gender and Age in the Construction of Male Youth in the European Migration “Crisis”
Displacement is clearly gendered; age also has a strong influence on outcomes and experiences for the displaced, including a significant impact on how they are understood by the public and policy makers. It is important to keep this in mind when considering how children and youth are understood within contexts of conflict and insecurity, how they are affected by these forces, and how they navigate their lives in these contexts, especially in seek…
Music, youth, and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
This article presents a preliminary analysis from a case study conducted in Northern Ireland. Participant observation and semi-structured interviewing were used to learn whether music might serve as a useful tool for engaging Northern Irish youth in peacebuilding. Obstacles and limitations certainly exist, but the data suggests that music can be used to engage youth in peacebuilding in three key ways: (1) music can be useful in bringing youth tog…
All-Female Police Contingents: Feminism and the Discourse of Armed Protection
This article focuses on women's involvement in peacekeeping operations and the introduction in 2007 of an all-female formed police unit (FFPU). Possible benefits and challenges of deploying all-female contingents in peace operations are considered and feminist theories of international relations are drawn upon to evaluate arguments for including women in peace and security missions. Media discourses on the Indian FFPU deployed to Liberia in 2007 …
Rethinking youth bulge theory in policy and scholarship: Incorporating Critical Gender Analysis
For decades 'youth bulge' theory has dominated understandings of youth in mainstream International Relations. Youth bulge theory has also become part of some public media analyses, mainstream political rhetoric, and even officially enshrined in the foreign policy of some states. Through the 'youth bulge' lens, youth-especially males-have been presented as current or future perpetrators of violence. However, this article argues that the youth bulg…
The Women, Peace and Security agenda: Australia and the agency of girls
This article argues that young women and girls are significant stakeholders in peace and security efforts. Understanding their roles, views and capacity is essential to an adequate perspective on peace and security. Yet girls remain the most marginalised group when it comes to peace and security efforts globally. Gender- and age-based hierarchies often leave their interests ignored. Excluding girls hinders prospects for sustainable peace by denyi…
Looking Back, Moving Forward: International Approaches to Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Based on a review of existing literature, this article provides an initial analysis of obstacles to addressing impunity for widespread conflict-related sexual violence. First, a background of trends of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in conflict is provided. The article then outlines why addressing impunity is important for building peace and ending conflict-related SGBV. Next, the article presents an overview of developments and mechanis…
Fixing the Girls’: Neoliberal Discourse and Girls' Participation in Peacebuilding
Does gender matter when planning youth peacebuilding projects? This article presents research findings from two youth peacebuilding projects – in Australia and Northern Ireland – and identifies several barriers to participation girls faced. It sheds light on reasons why girls participate in some peacebuilding activities but not others, highlighting the role of neoliberal discourse – placing the burden of responsibility for equal participation on …
Youth, peace & security: Gender matters in Asia and the Pacific
Youth have long been involved in informal peacebuilding, and the United Nations’ recent adoption of the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Agenda makes space for more formal involvement. These policy developments echo scholarship highlighting gender as crucial to understanding the roles and experiences of young people across a range of conflict-affected settings. This understanding is necessary to ensuring gender-equitable youth peacebuilding effort…
Participatory video: A new outlook for international relations research
This article considers the implications of incorporating participatory video in International Relations (IR) research. Drawing on existing aesthetic and visual IR research, I critically reflect on a case study incorporating participatory video in research investigating young women’s leadership in Asia and the Pacific. Through participatory video, young women redressed their common invisibility and challenged portrayals situating them as unable to…
Putting participation on stage: Examining participatory theatre as an alternative site for political participation
Participation, it has been said, is a central lynchpin of citizenship and democracy. Unfortunately, studies have shown for some time that political participation is on the decline in most Western democracies. Particularly for scholars and policy analysts who define political participation in democracy purely as voting, party membership or in terms of a narrow ‘arena’ definition of politics, the conclusion is clear: levels of political illiteracy …
Reflections on Possibilities and Challenges of Discussing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Role-Play Simulations
Addressing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in international peace and security frameworks is crucial. Yet SGBV often remains silenced in the peace and security literature. Relatedly SGBV tends to be marginalised in the classroom. This can perpetuate challenges to achieving peace by producing graduates and practitioners who are neither knowledgeable about, nor prepared to deal with, SGBV in practice. To explore possibilities for engaging w…
Prospects for intergenerational peace leadership: Reflections from Asia and the Pacific
In this article, we develop a model of intergenerational peace leadership (IPL) with a particular focus upon young women’s peace leadership. IPL remains under-theorised and under-recognised in both global policy and academic scholarship. We therefore outline and advocate for a young women-focussed IPL model as an opportunity for robust and sustainable peace leadership that aligns with broader UN-driven inclusive peace agendas. We begin the articl…
The making of 'Mary Poppins' migrants: Analysing German discourse on displaced Ukrainians 2022-23 through fictional film
Building on insights from Migration Studies and International Relations, we investigate constructions of Ukrainians who arrived in Germany due to conflict-induced displacement during the first year of the Russian-Ukraine war. To do so, we analysed reporting on Ukrainian women in two German major weekly news outlets (Der Spiegel and Die Zeit). Here we take a unique approach - drawing on key points of, and illustrative quotes from, that analysis, a…
Abbott’s ‘budget crisis’, Cald women’s loss? Service providers explore the impact of funding cuts
Women have been disproportionately affected by funding cuts to services following the 2008 global financial crisis. Using a feminist intersectional analysis of austerity measures applied to family violence (FV) services in Victoria, Australia, including 11 service provider interviews, we find that: the Australian government drew on global narratives of austerity in constructing a 'budget crisis', with subsequent cuts to funds addressing FV; budge…
Gendering the study of children and youth in peacebuilding
Building on the work of feminist scholars and others arguing for considering the ‘everyday’ in peace and conflict studies, this article applies a gendered lens to understanding young people's everyday experiences of peace and violence. It draws on case studies using participant observation and semi-structured interviews with peer leaders in programs that use dance and creative movement to involve young people in peacebuilding in the USA and Colom…
Youth, politics, and participation in a changing world
What options do young people have for enacting social and political change? Can traditional politics redeem itself in the eyes of youth? Can political leaders hear young people? Do they listen? What alternative avenues for politics might young people pursue or propose? What are their respective prospects and challenges? These are some key questions that arise when reading Young Citizens and Political Participation in a Digital Society, by Philipp…
Multiculturalism at play: Young people and citizenship in Australia
This article analyzes an Australian theatre program that engaged diverse youth in (re)visioning citizenship and multiculturalism by creating new notions of belonging and altering perceptions of Aboriginal culture and its value in Australia. This kind of work – where young people's understandings of inclusion and diversity can be unsettled, critiqued, and developed – is crucial because current approaches to Australian multiculturalism tend to rely…
Music, youth, and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
This article presents a preliminary analysis from a case study conducted in Northern Ireland. Participant observation and semi-structured interviewing were used to learn whether music might serve as a useful tool for engaging Northern Irish youth in peacebuilding. Obstacles and limitations certainly exist, but the data suggests that music can be used to engage youth in peacebuilding in three key ways: (1) music can be useful in bringing youth tog…
Fixing the Girls’: Neoliberal Discourse and Girls' Participation in Peacebuilding
Does gender matter when planning youth peacebuilding projects? This article presents research findings from two youth peacebuilding projects – in Australia and Northern Ireland – and identifies several barriers to participation girls faced. It sheds light on reasons why girls participate in some peacebuilding activities but not others, highlighting the role of neoliberal discourse – placing the burden of responsibility for equal participation on …
Looking Back, Moving Forward: International Approaches to Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Based on a review of existing literature, this article provides an initial analysis of obstacles to addressing impunity for widespread conflict-related sexual violence. First, a background of trends of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in conflict is provided. The article then outlines why addressing impunity is important for building peace and ending conflict-related SGBV. Next, the article presents an overview of developments and mechanis…
All-Female Police Contingents: Feminism and the Discourse of Armed Protection
This article focuses on women's involvement in peacekeeping operations and the introduction in 2007 of an all-female formed police unit (FFPU). Possible benefits and challenges of deploying all-female contingents in peace operations are considered and feminist theories of international relations are drawn upon to evaluate arguments for including women in peace and security missions. Media discourses on the Indian FFPU deployed to Liberia in 2007 …
The Women, Peace and Security agenda: Australia and the agency of girls
This article argues that young women and girls are significant stakeholders in peace and security efforts. Understanding their roles, views and capacity is essential to an adequate perspective on peace and security. Yet girls remain the most marginalised group when it comes to peace and security efforts globally. Gender- and age-based hierarchies often leave their interests ignored. Excluding girls hinders prospects for sustainable peace by denyi…
Gendering the study of children and youth in peacebuilding
Building on the work of feminist scholars and others arguing for considering the ‘everyday’ in peace and conflict studies, this article applies a gendered lens to understanding young people's everyday experiences of peace and violence. It draws on case studies using participant observation and semi-structured interviews with peer leaders in programs that use dance and creative movement to involve young people in peacebuilding in the USA and Colom…
Multiculturalism at play: Young people and citizenship in Australia
This article analyzes an Australian theatre program that engaged diverse youth in (re)visioning citizenship and multiculturalism by creating new notions of belonging and altering perceptions of Aboriginal culture and its value in Australia. This kind of work – where young people's understandings of inclusion and diversity can be unsettled, critiqued, and developed – is crucial because current approaches to Australian multiculturalism tend to rely…
Putting participation on stage: Examining participatory theatre as an alternative site for political participation
Participation, it has been said, is a central lynchpin of citizenship and democracy. Unfortunately, studies have shown for some time that political participation is on the decline in most Western democracies. Particularly for scholars and policy analysts who define political participation in democracy purely as voting, party membership or in terms of a narrow ‘arena’ definition of politics, the conclusion is clear: levels of political illiteracy …
Reflections on Possibilities and Challenges of Discussing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Role-Play Simulations
Addressing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in international peace and security frameworks is crucial. Yet SGBV often remains silenced in the peace and security literature. Relatedly SGBV tends to be marginalised in the classroom. This can perpetuate challenges to achieving peace by producing graduates and practitioners who are neither knowledgeable about, nor prepared to deal with, SGBV in practice. To explore possibilities for engaging w…
Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation: Combating Civic Deficit
Abbott’s ‘budget crisis’, Cald women’s loss? Service providers explore the impact of funding cuts
Women have been disproportionately affected by funding cuts to services following the 2008 global financial crisis. Using a feminist intersectional analysis of austerity measures applied to family violence (FV) services in Victoria, Australia, including 11 service provider interviews, we find that: the Australian government drew on global narratives of austerity in constructing a 'budget crisis', with subsequent cuts to funds addressing FV; budge…
Youth, politics, and participation in a changing world
What options do young people have for enacting social and political change? Can traditional politics redeem itself in the eyes of youth? Can political leaders hear young people? Do they listen? What alternative avenues for politics might young people pursue or propose? What are their respective prospects and challenges? These are some key questions that arise when reading Young Citizens and Political Participation in a Digital Society, by Philipp…
A Global South State’s Challenge to Gendered Global Cultures of Peacekeeping
This chapter explores the first all-female formed police unit (FFPU) in UN peacekeeping, deployed from India to Liberia. The FFPU has fostered important outcomes supporting the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. However, global norms that presume efforts can only be “legitimate” when conducted in ways that align with particular, Global North approaches can hinder implementation of the WPS agenda. Such norms marginalize differences that inter…
Gender and Age in the Construction of Male Youth in the European Migration “Crisis”
Displacement is clearly gendered; age also has a strong influence on outcomes and experiences for the displaced, including a significant impact on how they are understood by the public and policy makers. It is important to keep this in mind when considering how children and youth are understood within contexts of conflict and insecurity, how they are affected by these forces, and how they navigate their lives in these contexts, especially in seek…
Making music in divided cities: Transforming the ethnoscape
In the phenomenon of the divided city – urban environments partitioned along ethno-religious lines as a result of war or conflict – projects seeking to bring segregated people together through community music activities face many operational and psychological obstacles. Divided cities are politically sustained, institutionally consolidated, and relentlessly territorialized by competing ethno-nationalist actors. They are highly resistant to peaceb…
Closed due to ‘flooding’? UK media representations of refugees and migrants in 2015–2016 – creating a crisis of borders
This article reports on a discourse analysis of high circulation news media sources in the United Kingdom, around six key events relating to migration in 2015–2016. This article argues that the dominant discourse in UK media constructed the increase in movements of people and applications for asylum as a ‘crisis of borders’. In this context, Europe’s borders were deemed problematically porous in enabling large numbers of people to enter. This por…
Participatory video: A new outlook for international relations research
This article considers the implications of incorporating participatory video in International Relations (IR) research. Drawing on existing aesthetic and visual IR research, I critically reflect on a case study incorporating participatory video in research investigating young women’s leadership in Asia and the Pacific. Through participatory video, young women redressed their common invisibility and challenged portrayals situating them as unable to…
Rethinking youth bulge theory in policy and scholarship: Incorporating Critical Gender Analysis
For decades 'youth bulge' theory has dominated understandings of youth in mainstream International Relations. Youth bulge theory has also become part of some public media analyses, mainstream political rhetoric, and even officially enshrined in the foreign policy of some states. Through the 'youth bulge' lens, youth-especially males-have been presented as current or future perpetrators of violence. However, this article argues that the youth bulg…
Children & Migration: Political Constructions and Contestations
This article demonstrates the importance of paying attention to the roles children and childhood play in policy making relating to migration, especially since the outcomes of these debates have serious implications for children and for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers of all ages. The article considers a case study examining political representations of migrant, asylum seeker, and refugee children from 2015 to 2016 in the United Kingdom Par…
Youth, peace & security: Gender matters in Asia and the Pacific
Youth have long been involved in informal peacebuilding, and the United Nations’ recent adoption of the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Agenda makes space for more formal involvement. These policy developments echo scholarship highlighting gender as crucial to understanding the roles and experiences of young people across a range of conflict-affected settings. This understanding is necessary to ensuring gender-equitable youth peacebuilding effort…
Too young to run? Young political candidates and the 2020 Victorian local government elections
This article analyses the demographics, party affiliation, political motivations, and personal experiences of young people in Australia who run for elected office. By analysing a survey conducted with 51 young political candidates who ran in the 2020 Victorian local government elections, we show that that the most under-represented groups include young women, young people with Indigenous heritage or from minority ethnic backgrounds, and young peo…
Youth Choreographing Peace: Dance in and Beyond the Refugee Camp
Recent scholarship examines key roles the arts may play in peacebuilding and highlights the importance of youth-led peacebuilding. Building on these literatures, we investigate how young people displaced by conflict dance for peace and in doing so offer insights into peacebuilding theory and practice. Drawing on the first author's experience working in Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi from 2018–2019 and 12 semi-structured interviews conducted from …
Prospects for intergenerational peace leadership: Reflections from Asia and the Pacific
In this article, we develop a model of intergenerational peace leadership (IPL) with a particular focus upon young women’s peace leadership. IPL remains under-theorised and under-recognised in both global policy and academic scholarship. We therefore outline and advocate for a young women-focussed IPL model as an opportunity for robust and sustainable peace leadership that aligns with broader UN-driven inclusive peace agendas. We begin the articl…
The making of 'Mary Poppins' migrants: Analysing German discourse on displaced Ukrainians 2022-23 through fictional film
Building on insights from Migration Studies and International Relations, we investigate constructions of Ukrainians who arrived in Germany due to conflict-induced displacement during the first year of the Russian-Ukraine war. To do so, we analysed reporting on Ukrainian women in two German major weekly news outlets (Der Spiegel and Die Zeit). Here we take a unique approach - drawing on key points of, and illustrative quotes from, that analysis, a…
Singing Peace Into Existence? Music and Peacebuilding in Australia
This article connects research on music and peacebuilding with an exploration of related Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of being, knowing and doing. To understand the vision and potential of music-based peacebuilding in Australia, we consider Indigenous-led music and culture festival Treaty in the Park as a timely case study. Engaging the concept of ‘resonance’, we illuminate how peacebuilding knowledge is grounded in place through so…
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Law (18 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (11 works) · Public Administration (11 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (9 works)