Best Practice Diplomacy and Feminist Killjoys in the Strategic State: Exploring the Affective Politics of Women, Peace and Security

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Minna Lyytikäinen ◽  
Marjaana Jauhola
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
The Third ◽  
State Feminism ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Peace And Security

“And then I sNAPped”. How does it feel to snap at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, at a meeting taking stock of the progress of the UNSCR1325 National Action Plan? This paper is a response to the affective sites of Women, Peace and Security politics and the ways in which academic/activist knowledge has become (un)used by the strategic state. We identify moments of feminist killjoyism, which we call sNAPping, in the context of the wider transition from state feminism to the need to engage with the neoliberal governmentalities of the strategic state”. Our contribution is an auto-ethnographic reflection by two researcher-activists who participated in the multi-stage government-led process of drafting and launching the third Finnish UNSCR1325 National Action Plan and were also the authors of three key advocacy texts. We have used our experiences in such encounters as ethnographic research material to interrogate and analyse the feminist affects of sNAPping.

The Department of State

2020 ◽  
pp. 239-296
Author(s):  
Joana Cook
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Lead Agency ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
The Us ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

This chapter is one of three which examines a key U.S. department or agency which played a fundamental role in an 'all-of-government' approach to countering terrorism. The US Department of State is the designated lead agency on all foreign policy matters. This chapter looks at democracy promotion in the GWOT and the rights and empowerment of women to challenge extremism. It highlights increasing efforts in State to consider and integrate women into its counterterrorism strategy, and broader initiatives such as the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, and the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. It highlights the growth CVE initiatives, as well as how State had to increasingly respond to sexual and gender-based violence committed by terrorist groups. Finally it considers how key discourses emphasized in State around women's rights and victimhood were also being utilized by terrorist groups.

Trump undercuts women, peace and security agenda

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Us ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Funding Cuts

Subject Outlook for the women, peace and security agenda. Significance In 2018, President Donald Trump signed the US Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Act. That legislation codified the National Action Plan signed by President Barack Obama in 2011 for implementing the WPS agenda passed as UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000, and supplemented since by additional related resolutions and policies. Impacts The WPS agenda is only now slowly filtering into mainstream academic considerations of international relations. US healthcare funding cuts will affect the lives of millions of aid-dependent women. Women’s issues in US politics are likely to be highlighted most by the House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

WPS as Diplomatic Vocation

2018 ◽  
pp. 527-539
Author(s):  
Liu Tiewa
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Women ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Global Agenda

More open, active, and comprehensive participation of women in public affairs is an important component of modern democracy, and also significant for the promotion of sustainable security and peace. More than fifteen years have passed since the global agenda on Women, Peace, and Security was introduced. As a responsible great power of the United Nations, China has endeavored to implement WPS in its own way, despite not yet developing a formal National Action Plan. This chapter suggests that China has made great progress in the promotion of gender equality and highlights the important roles that Chinese women occupy in society and politics, despite the continued presence of “hidden rules” regarding gender roles. This research explores the different ways in which China has implemented the four WPS pillars. In doing so, it argues that China has, over the last fifteen years, increasingly viewed WPS as its diplomatic vocation.

scholarly journals The Implementation of Alternatives to Detention to Handle the Problems of Refugees in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 128-150
Author(s):  
Wicipto Setiadi ◽  
Mario Siagian
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
The State ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
The Third

In recent years, the numbers of refugees who transit in Indonesia are increasing. Since Indonesia is a state that upholds and respects human rights, the Indonesian government has an obligation to provide the best treatment and protection for refugees while they settle in the Indonesian territory. One of responsibilities of the state for these refugees is to implement programs that are alternatives to detention through the National Action Plan Beyond Detention 2014-2019. After the issuance of the Action Plan, the Indonesian government has collaborated with UNHCR and IOM to implement alternatives to detention in Indonesia. The alternatives are to provide care and the best protection for refugees living in the Indonesian territory. Refugees have to live in Indonesia temporarily because of various factors from the third countries. They have to stay for a while without a clear period until they are transferred to a third country of settlement. There are various problems in determining alternatives to detention in Indonesia. This paper aims to analyze and examine the policy of handling the problem of refugees in Indonesia since Indonesia has not ratified the Refugee Convention 1951.

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