Columba Achilleos

Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentre The #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe.

Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉

‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍

Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY

In our latest issue, Annika Bergman Rosamond contends that the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict is militarized, and informed by "notions of protection that are broadly western-centred and masculinised." This article is #OpenAccess now!

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Interview - Shirin M. Rai Shirin Rai reflects on feminist political economy, social reproduction, and climate change, tracing how capitalism and gendered labour shape inequality and everyday life.

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Interview - Shirin M. Rai at E-IR

The Women's Library at 100 | LSE Library Find out about the various activities planned to celebrate 100 years since The Women's Library was founded.

We are celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library, the UK’s oldest & largest book, archive & museum collection on the history of women's movement. Join us for an exhibition and year of FREE special events to mark its memory and continue its legacy. www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100
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BISA social media card of a rainbow background with lights, the BISA logo and a trophy. The words Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize, Nominate now, Deadline 3 February are below.

BISA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize 🎉

Recognising an individual or group that has made significant contributions to promoting a more inclusive discipline through in relation to a range of areas 🌟

Get nominating today! 👉 https://ow.ly/mbME50XWw6X

Jessica Northey prof toni haastrup

Fourteen interventions on twenty-five years of Women, Peace and Security. Open access, free to read.

“If an anniversary signals a return, a cycle of remembrance, then for WPS that ritual is in disarray… We may wonder: what sort of party does WPS deserve?”

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Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Research Network, a community of researchers …

The Women, Peace and Security UK Research Network is organising its first workshop. We invite submissions from researchers of all career stages and of any institutional affiliation (or none) based in the UK.

Workshop: 19 May
Deadline for abstracts: 2 March

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Promotional page for “Connecting Abolition(s),” a two-day workshop taking place 12–13 May 2026 at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. The page announces a call for contributions focused on abolition in theory and practice, including border abolition, prison and police abolition, climate justice, settler colonialism, mutual aid, and international solidarity. The event includes panels, roundtables, and creative workshops, with plenary speakers Ajay Parasram and Amal Abu-Bakare. A submission deadline of 26 January 2026 and contact email cmfd@aston.ac.uk are listed, along with a note that limited funding is available, prioritising PhD students and early career researchers.

Aston uni Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement is looking for participants for a workshop on centring abolition as transformative practice in our daily lives within and outside of academia🌟

Deadline 26 Jan & workshop on 12-13 May 🎉

👉 More info on sheet attached below!

Dr Amal Abu-Bakare

Rethinking Transitional Justice: The Eliminationist News Cycle in Liberal Democracies Abstract∞. How can an ostensibly free and open media actively facilitate systematic violence against minoritized groups? Studying anti-trans and anti-migra

New paper! 🚨 It studies anti-trans and anti-migrant media discourses in the UK as symptomatic of an ‘eliminationist news cycle’ in liberal democracies. Doing so, it challenges received wisdom on the role of the media in TJ and maps possibilities for new coalitions. academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike Four more who had paused opt not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK

Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program..

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Columba and I contributed a short section on abolition feminism and WPS to this @ifjpglobal.bsky.social Conversations piece. Looking forward to reading what all the other awesome contributors have to say about this moment in the history of feminist peace organising.

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Unhappy birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25 Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Just in time for the holidays, check out our Conversations piece @paulcinnamon.bsky.social “Unhappy Birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25” 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
✨⭐ Featuring a stellar line up of WPS scholars & practitioners👇👇👇

Congratulations! Can't wait to get a copy

🚨Exciting news! Today is pub day for my book Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding. 🚨

You can preorder print copies now and the online edition of the book is already available to subscribers to Oxford Academic at this link: bit.ly/4hP3wdc

Editorial titled "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power" by Columba Achilleos-Sarll, Toni Haastrup, and Jennifer Thomson.

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢

In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice.

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Excited to share the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social featuring research on WPS, gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy, and UNSCR 1325.

All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world.

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Gendersky Polisky

Our special section on #feministforeignpolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social is currently free to access!

@tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social

Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

Forgetting WPS: On Being Careful What You Wish For - IPI Global Observatory We concluded our recent book, Governing the Feminist Peace, with an exhortation to “forget WPS”—to abandon attempts to force coherence onto an agenda that had become so sprawling and intricate over it...

With @drljshepherd.bsky.social, revisiting our plea to 'forget' Women, Peace and Security in light of the governments currently trying to make it disappear.

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Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
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I'm super-excited about this conversation between these feminist activists, theorists, and friends, coming up at @intellpublics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on December 8. Online. Registration link below! @dukepress.bsky.social

Nice to see this piece has an issue number now, just as we pass the 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325. @columbaachilleos.bsky.social and I also have a short follow up conversations piece coming shortly...
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25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda: new Review of International Studies edition by Katrina Lee Koo 🎉

All articles free to read until end of Jan!
Inc: Maria Martin de Almagro, Sara E Davies, Hannah Wright, Alexandra Phelan & more! 🌟

Read here 👉 https://ow.ly/rqR450XhsZt

Logo for "Review of International Studies" featuring a partial image of the Earth on a dark background, with text indicating an editor's selection by Katrina Lee Koo.

25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda - a new collection from @risjnl.bsky.social complied by Katrina Lee Koo.

Browse here - https://cup.org/4oAmXZq

cc @mybisa.bsky.social

Pleased to see mine and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social 's article, 'Towards an Abolitionist Feminist Peace: State Violence, Anti-Militarism and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda' in this new collection:

AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies Exclusive: Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost

If the aid sector is truly committed to the idea of doing no harm then it should not be using generative AI.

Full-stop.

But instead we see how once again the sector is a useful playground for capitalist experimentation and expansion.

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The @mybisa.bsky.social Gendering IR Working Group is now on Bluesky (and LinkedIn)! 🥳 Follow us here for updates and upcoming events.

Something to read on the eve of the 4th FFP ministerial
2 yrs of work; from authors to editors really proud to have worked with so many awesome feminists++ on this & the best co-editors a girl could wish for @columbaachilleos.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social - the smartest minds! 🙏🏾

💥 Explore the full Special Section #FeministForeignPolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social. Thanks to all contributors! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social @nwelfens.bsky.social @karolinefaerber.bsky.social @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social @balnik.bsky.social @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social