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Troubled Encounters: Feminist Foreign Policy and Donor-Implementer Relations in Peacebuilding

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: As more governments commit to feminist foreign policies (FFPs), this commitment trickles down to a central foreign policy area: peacebuilding. As a field, peacebuilding has historically been dominated by western states and western-dominated institutions performing interventions along the hegemonic liberal peacebuilding paradigm (Lederach 1997; Mac Ginty 2008). This has, in turn, provoked significant feminist criticisms and interventions (Duncanson 2016; Hewitt and True 2021; McLeod 2018). When Germany, the largest peacebuilding funder globally (Rotmann, Li, and Stoffel 2021; UN Peacebuilding 2024), announced their FFP in 2023, this development opened up the prospect for substantial feminist change, but also raised questions about what such change might look like in practice.

Source: Politics & Gender

DOI: 10.1017/s1743923x25100202

Authors: Niklas Balbon, Younna Christiansen

Institution: Global Public Policy Institute

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Security, and Conflict

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Partnerships for the goals, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4413066329