The Liberian civil wars of the 1990s and 2000s became notorious for their atrocities, and for
the widespread use of child soldiers. Girls and young women accounted for up to 40 per …

Research on gender expertise is often conducted from relations of proximity between
academics and gender experts, raising familiar feminist methodological questions about the …

Since the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, migrants' mobility has been increasingly
securitised as governments have been adopting extraordinary measures to close both …

Kurdish female guerrillas in the armed political organization Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
established death as the ultimate form of agentive transcendence in the early periods of their …

In recent years, the academic study of 'war'has gained renewed popularity in criminology.
This book illustrates its long-standing engagement with this social phenomenon within the …

Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh examines the rebuilding of the city of Banda Aceh in
Indonesia in the aftermath of the celebrated Helsinki-based peace mediation process, thirty …

Conflicts are increasingly recognised as situated in local contexts with culturally specific
elements playing important roles. At the same time, conflicts reflect and contribute to global …

International Relations (IR) tends to ignore children in general and girls in particular. Where
they have been included it has most often been under the conflation of 'womenandchildren' …

Consequently, Africa has been the site of extensive conflict resolution and peacebuilding
interventions by local, national, continental, and international actors. The African Union (AU) …

» We must declare war on the virus,«stated UN chief António Guterres on March 13, 2020,
just two days after the WHO had characterized the outbreak of the novel Covid-19 virus as a …