The Girl Next Door: How Local Individuals Can Affect Global Policy
In this essay, Isobel Dodd argues that addressing domestic misogyny must be a part of a feminist foreign policy to strengthen state security.
An African Obedient Rebellion to the Global Nuclear Order
The African nuclear weapon-free zone, as a form of “obedient rebellion”, is central to challenging the global nuclear order.
Unsettling Feminist Foreign Policy and Aotearoa New Zealand
In this essay, Angela Wilton argues that a “feminist” foreign policy would be an anti-feminist act in Aotearoa New Zealand without co-creation and co-governance with Indigenous peoples.
New Partnership between Wissenschaft und Frieden and the Peace Science Digest
War Prevention Initiative–Wissenschaft und Frieden (W&F) and the Peace Science Digest announce a new partnership for 2023.
Framing an Afro-Feminist Foreign Policy
In this essay, Oluwatoyin Christiana Olajide explores a two-pronged approach for pursuing a feminist foreign policy in an African context: local feminist activism with global reach and men’s ally-ship within government ministries.
Building Peace in Cyberspace
By examining cybersecurity through the lens of peace and conflict studies, we can shift the discourse on cyberwar to a focus on cyberpeace.
Selected Essays Announced in Feminist Foreign Policy Essay “Un-Contest”
The War Prevention Initiative is pleased to announce 11 essays on feminist foreign policy selected for publication.
How Social Networks Facilitate Protest Against and Amid Criminal Violence
Involvement in social networks helps explain why individuals decide to protest the insecurity they face, despite the risks from both criminal groups and state security forces.
War Prevention Initiative: Recent police killings in the United States show that authentic security emerges from peacebuilding, not militarization.
We are outraged by recent police killings in the United States, through continued prevalence of militarized security and the disproportionate harm it inflicts on BIPOC.
War Results in Adverse Health Outcomes for Children
Across 52 developing countries, children exposed to armed conflict score significantly lower on key measures of childhood health compared to those who are not exposed to armed conflict.
War Prevention Initiative: Doomsday Clock shows the world closer to nuclear war – the time for denuclearization is now.
War Prevention Initiative: Doomsday Clock shows the world closer to nuclear war – the time for denuclearization is now.
