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Discourses in Transition: Re-Imagining Women's Security

University of Ulster, UK

Paddy Hillyard

Queen's University, Belfast, UK

Amy Maguire

University of Newcastle, Australia

Monica McWilliams

Gillian Robinson

University of Ulster, UK

David Russell

Queen's University, Belfast, UK

Margaret Ward

Women's Resource and Development Agency, Belfast, UK

This article employs data gathered in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and South Africa as part of a project entitled ‘Re-Imagining Women's Security and Participation in Post-Conflict Societies’. It refl ects on three different ‘imaginings’ of security–the state security discourse, the human security discourse and a gendered security approach–with the aim of showing that security discourses are currently undergoing a process of transition which parallels that taking place in post-conflict societies around the world. The article is particularly concerned to explore how a gendered security approach might empower women to re-imagine security in contextualised, bottom-up ways, and advocate social transformation within the broader processes of post-conflict transition. In order to consider women's demands for security policies and approaches in the twenty-fi rst century, the article explores the direct testimony of women in three post-conflict societies, with specifi c reference to three key areas of security central to women's re-imaginings of the concept.

Key Words: feminist methodology • gendered security • human security • security dialogue • United Nations

International Relations, Vol. 20, No. 4, 487-502 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0047117806069410


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