Discourses in Transition: Re-Imagining Women’s Security1
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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-Confl ict 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-confl ict 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-confl ict 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-confl ict societies, with specifi c reference to three key areas of security central to women’s re-imaginings of the concept.
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