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Gender: The Missing Piece in the Peace Puzzle

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Several scholars from various theoretical perspectives have proposed pieces of the peace puzzle.1 As scholars fit together the sometimes disparate pieces of this puzzle, the missing pieces become more visible, and gender is among them. While gender studies, feminist international relations (IR) scholars, and peace and conflict researchers informed by a gender perspective have contributed to this puzzle, epistemological, ontological and methodological barriers have often prevented this work from attracting a mainstream audience.2

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  1. University of Manchester, UK

    Oliver P. Richmond (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor), Sandra Pogodda (Lecturer) & Jasmin Ramović (Doctoral Candidate) (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor),  (Lecturer) &  (Doctoral Candidate)

  2. Kyung Hee University, Korea

    Oliver P. Richmond (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor) (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor)

  3. University of Tromso, Norway

    Oliver P. Richmond (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor) (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor)

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Björkdahl, A., Selimovic, J.M. (2016). Gender: The Missing Piece in the Peace Puzzle. In: Richmond, O.P., Pogodda, S., Ramović, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-40761-0_14

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