Sumários

Debating Resolution 1325: Women, Peace and Security

13 Março 2024, 20:30 • Joao David Terrenas

Topics:
Gender and in/security; gender mainstreaming; Women, Peace and Security: assumptions,
opportunities and challenges; Nactional Action Plans; Civil society and.the WPS; Regional
organizations and the WPS.
Key Questions:
(A) What are the core assumptions of the WPS?
(B) Is the WPS a transformative agenda?
(C) What can different feminist perspectives reveal when engaging with matters of peace and
security?
(D) What has been the role of civil society in Resolution 1325?
(E) How do power relations continue to be replicated through the WPS?
(F) What is the role of National Action Plans in the implementation of Resolution 1325?

(G) What are the challenges of translating global norms to local contexts?

Required readings (for seminar discussion):
Parashar, S. (2018). The WPS agenda: a postcolonial critique.

Suggested Readings
Holvikivi, A., & Reeves, A. (2020). Women, Peace and Security after Europe's ‘refugee crisis’.
European Journal of International Security, 5(2), 135-154. doi:10.1017/eis.2020.1 (Podcast: Link)
Laura McLeod(2011) Configurations of Post-Conflict: Impacts of Representations of Conflict and
Post-Conflict upon the (Political) Translations of Gender Security within UNSCR
1325,International Feminist Journal of Politics,13:4,594-611,DOI:
10.1080/14616742.2011.611664
Maria-Adriana Deiana & Kenneth McDonagh (2018) ‘It is important, but…’: translating the
Women Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda into the planning of EU peacekeeping
missions,Peacebuilding,6:1,34-48,DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2017.130387
Torunn L. Tryggestad, “Trick or Treat? The UN and Implementation of Security Council
Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security”, Global Governance, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2009
Carol Cohn, Helen Kinsella and Sheri Gibbings, “Women, Peace and Security Resolution 1325”,
International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2004
Gerard J. DeGroot, “A Few Good Women: Gender Stereotypes, the Military and Peacekeeping”,
International Peacekeeping, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2001
Claire Duncanson, “Forces for Good? Narratives of Military Masculinity in Peacekeeping
Operations”, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2009
Carol Harrington, “Resolution 1325 and Post-Cold War Feminist Politics”, International Feminist
Journal of Politics, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2011
Eirin Mobekk, “Gender, Women and Security Sector Reform”, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 17,
No. 2, 2010
Nadine Puechguirbal, “Discourses on Gender, Patriarchy and Resolution 1325: A Textual
Analysis of UN Documents”, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2010
Laura Shepherd, “Power and Authority in the Production of United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1325”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2008
Jasmine-Kim Westendorf, “’Add women and stir’: the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon
Islands and Australia’s implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325”,
Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 4, 2013

Peace Operations and the Conflict Resolution Process

13 Março 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos

The session will present the basic concepts of conflict resolution, and will discuss how they relate to the different peace and security activities carried out by international partnerships and organisations.

Lecture/Conference by General Carlos Branco (retired).

Trabalho autónomo:

DAALDER, Ivo and GOLDGEIER, James (2006) "Global NATO", Foreign Affairs, Vol. 85, NO. 5., pp. 105-112.

UN Agenda for Peace: Gathering a body of global agreeements

Terminology

Debating Resolution 1325: Women, Peace and Security

13 Março 2024, 13:00 • Joao David Terrenas

Topics:
Gender and in/security; gender mainstreaming; Women, Peace and Security: assumptions,
opportunities and challenges; Nactional Action Plans; Civil society and.the WPS; Regional
organizations and the WPS.
Key Questions:
(A) What are the core assumptions of the WPS?
(B) Is the WPS a transformative agenda?
(C) What can different feminist perspectives reveal when engaging with matters of peace and
security?
(D) What has been the role of civil society in Resolution 1325?
(E) How do power relations continue to be replicated through the WPS?
(F) What is the role of National Action Plans in the implementation of Resolution 1325?

(G) What are the challenges of translating global norms to local contexts?

Required readings (for seminar discussion):
Parashar, S. (2018). The WPS agenda: a postcolonial critique.

Suggested Readings
Holvikivi, A., & Reeves, A. (2020). Women, Peace and Security after Europe's ‘refugee crisis’.
European Journal of International Security, 5(2), 135-154. doi:10.1017/eis.2020.1 (Podcast: Link)
Laura McLeod(2011) Configurations of Post-Conflict: Impacts of Representations of Conflict and
Post-Conflict upon the (Political) Translations of Gender Security within UNSCR
1325,International Feminist Journal of Politics,13:4,594-611,DOI:
10.1080/14616742.2011.611664
Maria-Adriana Deiana & Kenneth McDonagh (2018) ‘It is important, but…’: translating the
Women Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda into the planning of EU peacekeeping
missions,Peacebuilding,6:1,34-48,DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2017.130387
Torunn L. Tryggestad, “Trick or Treat? The UN and Implementation of Security Council
Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security”, Global Governance, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2009
Carol Cohn, Helen Kinsella and Sheri Gibbings, “Women, Peace and Security Resolution 1325”,
International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2004
Gerard J. DeGroot, “A Few Good Women: Gender Stereotypes, the Military and Peacekeeping”,
International Peacekeeping, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2001
Claire Duncanson, “Forces for Good? Narratives of Military Masculinity in Peacekeeping
Operations”, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2009
Carol Harrington, “Resolution 1325 and Post-Cold War Feminist Politics”, International Feminist
Journal of Politics, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2011
Eirin Mobekk, “Gender, Women and Security Sector Reform”, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 17,
No. 2, 2010
Nadine Puechguirbal, “Discourses on Gender, Patriarchy and Resolution 1325: A Textual
Analysis of UN Documents”, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2010
Laura Shepherd, “Power and Authority in the Production of United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1325”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2008
Jasmine-Kim Westendorf, “’Add women and stir’: the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon
Islands and Australia’s implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325”,
Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 4, 2013

Security: an historical overview

6 Março 2024, 20:30 • Joao David Terrenas

Topics:
Security during the Cold War; Broadening, Deepening and Modifying the Concept of Security; Critical vs
Traditional Security Studies; Contending Approaches and Methods to the Study of Security; Emerging
topics in the security agenda.
Key Questions:
(A) How was security studied during the Cold War?
(B) How was the concept of security broadened, deepened and modified?
(C) What key concepts of security emerged from the broadening and deepening of security?
(D) How did critical security studies challenged traditional security studies and what are the key differences
between these two groups?
(E) What are the main approaches that can be utilized to study security?
(F) What are the differences and similarities between the Aberystwyth, Copenhagen and Paris Schools of
security studies?
(G) How do constructivist, feminist and post colonial approaches engage with the study of in/security?
(H) How are research methods for the study of security re-imagined by critical scholars?
(I) What is state-building for peace?
(JJ) What are the main challenges identified by practitioners in relation to external-led state-building?
Required readings (for seminar discussion):
Question for the debate in class: Are critical approaches to security necessary? What can they tell us that
traditional perspectives cannot? Do we need/should redefine the concept of security? If so, why?
Steve Smith (1999) The increasing insecurity of security studies: Conceptualizing security in the last
twenty years,Contemporary Security Policy,20:3,72-101,DOI: 10.1080/13523269908404231
Benfjamin Miller (2001) The Concept of Security: Should it be Redefined?, Journal of Strategic
Studies,24:2,13-42

The politics of post-war reconstruction

6 Março 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos

Key topics:

  • New wars and failed states; Post-war reconstruction; From peace-building to peace-keeping; Dilemmas of Statebuilding; Conventional and Emerging approaches to state-building

Key Questions:

  • What does postwar reconstruction mean?
  • Where does it fit alongside concepts like peacekeeping, peacemaking, peacebuilding, nationbuilding and statebuilding?
  • What is the Liberal Peace thesis?
  • What is a failed state?
  • How did practices of postwar reconstruction evolved?
  • What are the main differences between the four waves of postwar reconstruction?
  • What are the dimensions of postwar reconstruction and stabilization?
  • What are the main challenges identified by practitioners?
  • What are the key issues linked to international intervention and postwar reconstruction as practiced since the 1990s?
  • How contested is liberal postwar reconstruction in the literature?
  • Is liberal postwar reconstruction viable?
  • What is the concept of resilience and in what way does it affect liberal postwar reconstruction?
  • How does contemporary postwar reconstruction affect the concepts of autonomy and sovereignty?


Trabalho autónomo:

Suggested Readings:

  • Ikenberry, G. J. (2009) 'Liberal Internationalism 3.0: America and the Dilemmas of Liberal World Order', Perspectives on Politics, 7(1): 71-87.
  • Paris, R. and Timothy Sisk (eds) (2009) The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations (Routledge 2009).
  • Helman, G. B and Ratner, S. R., 'Saving Failed States, Foreign Policy , No. 89 (Winter, 1992-1993), pp. 3-20
  • Doyle, Michael (2005) 'Three Pillars of the Liberal Peace', American Political Science Review, 99/3.
  • Richmond, O. P. (2010) (ed.), Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding. Critical Development and Approaches. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Ch. 1.
  • Rocha Menocal, A. (2011). 'State Building for Peace: a new paradigm for international engagement
  • in post-conflict fragile states?', Third World Quarterly,32(10), 1715-1736.
  • Paris, R. and Timothy Sisk (eds) (2009) The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations. Abingdon: Routledge. Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Department for International Development (2010) Building Peaceful States and Societies. Available at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/67694/Buildingpeaceful-
  • states-and-societies.pdf
  • United States Institute for Peace (2009) Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction. http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/guiding_principles_full.pdf
  • Paris, R. (2010) 'Saving liberal peacebuilding', Review of international studies, 36(2): 337-365.
  • Cooper, N., Turner, M., & Pugh, M. (2011). The end of history and the last liberal peacebuilder: a reply to Roland Paris. Review of international studies,37(4), 1995-2007.
  • J ahn, B. (2007) 'The Tragedy of Liberal Diplomacy: Democratization, Intervention, Statebuilding. Part I, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 1(1): 87-106.
  • Jahn, B. (2007) 'The Tragedy of Liberal Diplomacy: Democratization, Intervention, Statebuilding
  • (Part II)', Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 1(2): 211-229.
  • Mac Ginty, R. (2010) 'Hybrid Peace: The Interaction Between Top-Down and Bottom Up Peace', Security Dialogue, 42(3): 391-412.
  • Chandler, D. (2013) 'International Statebuilding and the Ideology of Resilience', Politics, 33(4), 276-286.
  • Joseph, J. (2013) 'Resilience as embedded neoliberalism: a governmentality approach', Resilience, 1(1), 38-52.
  • Chandler, D. (2006) Empire in Denial: The Politics of State-Building. London: Pluto Press. Introduction.
  • Chandler, D. (2008) Statebuilding and Intervention: Policies, Practices, and Paradigms. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Chandler, D. (2010) International Statebuilding: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance Abingdon: Routledge. Introduction and Ch. 3.
  • Darby J. (2008) and Roger Mac Ginty, Contemporary Peacemaking. Conflict, Peace Processes and Post-war Reconstruction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Dobbins, James et al (2007) The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building. Santa Monica, CA: RAND. Summary and Ch. 1. Available online. http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG557.pdf
  • Fukuyama, F. (2005) Statebuilding. Governance and Order in the Twenty-First Century. London: Profile Books.
  • Hehir, A. and Neil Robinson (eds) (2007) State-Building: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge. Ch. 1.

  • Other resources:

    International Crisis Group - http://www.crisisgroup.org/

    Carnegie Endownment (Political Reforms) - http://www.carnegieendowment.org/topic/?fa=list&id=351

    UK Government Stabilization Unit - http://www.stabilisationunit.gov.uk/

    ISOA - association of private forms active in peace and stability operations - http://stabilityoperations.

    org/index.php

    RAND (Nationbuilding) - http://www.rand.org/topics/nation-building.html

    OECD - http://www.oecd.org/site/dacpbsbdialogue/

    New Deal - Building Peaceful States - http://www.newdeal4peace.org/

    US Department of State (Bureau of Conflict Stabilization Operations) -

    http://www.state.gov/j/cso/index.htm

  • Documentaries and movies:

    Green Zone (2010)

    Control Room (2004)

    Restrepo (2010)

    Statebuilding in Theory and Practice

    Iraq-No End in Sight (2007)

    The Death of Yugoslavia (1995)

    How to Build a Country from Scratch (2011)