Over the course of the last few decades, intersectionality has been an increasingly adopted framework within peace studies. Generated out of the insights of Black feminist thinking, intersectionality is a powerful lens for analyzing oppression, domination, and many...
In the End of Peacekeeping (Penn Press 2024), I argue that the foundational thinking and practices of United Nations (UN) are patriarchal, colonial and martial and that as a result, abolishing peacekeeping is the only way forward. The book proposes that peacekeeping...
Quite literally, values determine ‘what is worth fighting for.’ When fighting entails a willingness to kill and/or be killed, we must take codes of valuation seriously. My essay explores how dominant value codes – and the emotional investments and power relations they...