Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Online
Module Offerings
7512BCIRDL-JAN-PAR
Aims
1. To develop students' understanding of gender as a critical lens through which power can be examined.
2. To develop students' understanding of the ways in which power shapes international peace and security.
3. Develop students' understanding of the UN's Women, Peace, and Security agenda and other humanitarian and development initiatives that focus on sexual and gender-based violence and SOGI rights.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Explain and evaluate key issues related to key international policy agendas related to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).
2.
Engage with scholarly, legal, and policy literatures on issues of peace and security.
3.
Operationalise feminist security studies as a critical lens through which to assess issues of peace and conflict.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
Topics discussed could include:
• What does it mean to study gender in peace and security?
• The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in International Organisations
• Feminist foreign policy
• Gender and violent extremism
• Gender and transitional justice
• Masculinities in peace and security
• Feminist resistance to war and militarisation
• SOGI, peace, and security
Topics discussed could include:
• What does it mean to study gender in peace and security?
• The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in International Organisations
• Feminist foreign policy
• Gender and violent extremism
• Gender and transitional justice
• Masculinities in peace and security
• Feminist resistance to war and militarisation
• SOGI, peace, and security
Module Overview:
This module provides a grounding in gender as a critical theoretical lens forunderstanding how certain categories of power impact upon international peace andsecurity. It will be important for students interested in working in industries concernedwith peace, security, and development, as the WPS agenda continues to gainrecognition and grounding internationally.
This module provides a grounding in gender as a critical theoretical lens forunderstanding how certain categories of power impact upon international peace andsecurity. It will be important for students interested in working in industries concernedwith peace, security, and development, as the WPS agenda continues to gainrecognition and grounding internationally.