Patricia A. Weitsman

Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv

Richard Matthew

Nora Davis

Tera Dornfeld

Violent conflict, climate change, and poverty present distinct threats to women worldwide. Importantly, women are leading the way creating and sharing sustainable solutions. Women’s security is a valuable analytical tool as well as a political agenda insofar as it addresses the specific problems affecting women’s ability to live dignified, free, and secure lives. First, this collection focuses on how conflict impacts women’s lives and well-being, including rape and gendered constructions of ethnicity, race, and religion. The book’s second section looks beyond the scope of large-scale violence to examine human security in terms of environmental policy, food, water, health, and economics. Multidisciplinary in scope, these essays from new and established contributors draw from gender studies, international relations, criminology, political science, economics, sociology, biological and ecological sciences, and planning.

Violence, Environment, and Sustainability

Women’s Perspectives on Human Security

Ken Rutherford

Richard Anthony Matthew

Stefan Brem

NGOs and middle-power countries can team up to create solutions to international security problems like child soldiers and landmine proliferation.

The Impact of NGO and Middle Power Cooperation in International Security Policy

Reframing the Agenda

Richard Matthew

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