Campaign Finance Reform: A Pathway to Peaceful Elections
by Padmini Das This essay was selected for publication as part of the War Prevention Initiative’s Essay Un-contest on Peaceful Elections. In any functioning democracy, elections are not just a mechanism for selecting leaders; they are also a crucial process for legitimizing governance and ensuring political stability. However, the integrity of … Read more
Votes, Voices, and the Far Right
by Irina Militaru This essay was selected for publication as part of the War Prevention Initiative’s Essay Un-contest on Peaceful Elections. It’s scorching hot, and I’m in a field in the middle of nowhere (i.e., the industrial zone of Frankfurt, couched between two factories and the highway), triple-checking if … Read more
Standing United in Wisconsin: Promoting Peaceful Elections in a Contested State
by Lisa Inks and Eli Kelling (with Urban Rural Action) with photographs by John Noltner This essay was selected for publication as part of the War Prevention Initiative’s Essay Un-contest on Peaceful Elections. Southeast Wisconsin not only sits at the epicenter in a swing state of what will be a … Read more
Building Peace midst Conflict: My Journey in South Sudan’s Path Towards Elections
by Lona James Luduro Elia This essay was selected for publication as part of the War Prevention Initiative’s Essay Un-contest on Peaceful Elections. As a young woman born in Yei who grew up in Juba, South Sudan, I have witnessed first-hand the tumultuous journey of my country’s quest for democracy. … Read more
Shiny Feminism
In this essay, Margherita Sofia Zambelli calls out “shiny feminism” and offers a set of questions, as tools, to analyze whether feminist foreign policies contribute to transformative change.
How to Better Define a Feminist Foreign Policy
In this essay, Padmini Das offers three strategies for how to better define and implement a feminist foreign policy.
From the Cuban Missile Crisis to Russia’s War in Ukraine: Strategic Empathy as Feminist Foreign Policy
In this essay, Samara Shaz outlines how a feminist foreign policy should replace brinkmanship with strategic empathy in order to end wars and prevent further loss of human life.
Right to Choice and the Hijab: Call for International Legal Reform
In this essay, Raghavi Purimetla and Amukta Sistla envision how a feminist foreign policy can integrate with international legal frameworks to protect women’s rights around the world.
“From Victims to Leaders”: Let the Silenced Speak – Climate Change through the Lens of Feminist Foreign Policy
In this essay, Shrinwanti Mistri argues for climate justice as a core feature of feminist foreign policy, and for centering those most impacted and marginalized by the global climate crisis in decision-making processes about how to address it.
The Feminist Revolution: An Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Militarist Case for Rethinking Foreign Policy
In this essay, Irina Militaru argues that a feminist foreign policy must be anti-capitalist.
The War Within
In this essay, Morgan Shier intimately links the experience of daily life with a call for policies that recognize human multidimensionality, intersectionality, and interconnectedness.
