Gendering Peace Education: In-Between Dialoge, Difference and Dissidence

Oct 28, 2021 | London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace and Security
Online
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This event is part of the Gender, Peace, Education and International Law Symposium held under the ERC project ‘A Gendered International Law of Peace’.

What insights do folk couplets called ‘Landay’- an oral, and often anonymous song by Pashtun women in Afghanistan bring to us, when we think about gender, and peace education? Why do we need to re-centre our gaze to the historie(s) for instance of dalit women from India, who stand on the margins of hegemonic epistemic traps? Why do lived experiences of coloniality/postcoloniality matter? How does an intersectional lens push us to think differently about both what is  labelled as gender and peace education, and also  what is not labelled as gender and peace education?

So is the trajectory of  peace education about paying attention to the ‘politicization of experiences’, and re-centring our gaze to the  language of dialogue, difference and dissidence? In this lecture, by a careful reading of feminist historie(s) in South Asia, I bring to fore how feminists in Global South, have scripted an alternative vocabulary of peace education, marked by both dialogue and dissidence. In doing so I pay particular attention to the politics of ‘difference’ by recognising the epistemic silences and marginalisation, not just ‘about’ the field, but also ‘within’ the field.

Who: London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace and Security

Where: Online

When: 28 October 2021