women’s leadership

This article examines the strategies, dilemmas, and hybrid forms of feminist advocacy advanced by the South Sudan Women’s Coalition for Peace (SSWCP) during and after the 2017–2018 high-level revitalised forum peace process. It traces how the coalition mobilised across borders and strategically inserted itself into liberal, elite-dominated negotiation spaces, while simultaneously engaging grassroots actors through […]

Gender myths – including essentialist and instrumentalist framings – can inspire action, but they can also perpetuate stereotypes and reinforce gender roles and norms. In this paper, I use Gayatri Spivak’s concept of strategic essentialism to explore how women’s organisations in Vanuatu navigate the advantages and risks of using essentialist and instrumentalist framings in their […]