About “Handbook of Feminist Peace Research” by T. Väyrynen,S. Parashar, E. Féron & C. Confortini

You have just co-edited the “Handbook of Feminist Peace Research”, which gives an overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace globally. Can you tell us why you chose to write this book?

First of all, I want to underscore that this is a handbook meant to be used by everyone, from students to policy makers. A Feminist Peace Research Network was created a few years ago by Tampere University, Lund University (Sweden), and the Arctic University of Norway. It now gathers around a hundred members, including many academics in the Global South, who develop feminist perspectives on peace. My co-editors and I wished to “undiscipline” or “disturb” conventional understandings of peace and conflict. In other words, we wished to push the conversation further, as in our view peace and conflict research had become quite stagnant over the past decades. This is the first book collecting such essential research…