Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Workshop
Module Offerings
7112IR-JAN-MTP
Aims
To develop students’ understanding of gender as a critical lens through which power can be examined.
To develop students’ understanding of the ways in which power shapes international peace and security.
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
Module Overview:
This module provides a grounding in gender as a critical theoretical lens for understanding how certain categories of power impact upon international peace and security. It will be important for students interested in working in industries concerned with peace, security, and development, as the WPS agenda continues to gain recognition and grounding internationally.
This module provides a grounding in gender as a critical theoretical lens for understanding how certain categories of power impact upon international peace and security. It will be important for students interested in working in industries concerned with peace, security, and development, as the WPS agenda continues to gain recognition and grounding internationally.
Additional Information:This module provides a grounding in gender as a critical theoretical lens for understanding how certain categories of power impact upon international peace and security. It will be important for students interested in working in industries concerned with peace, security, and development, as the WPS agenda continues to gain recognition and grounding internationally.