Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security ─ Aligning the Protection Agendas

In Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security: Aligning the Protection Agendas, editors Sara E. Davies, Zim Nwokora, Eli Stamnes and Sarah Teitt address the intersections of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle and the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. Contributions from policy-makers and academics consider both the merits and the utility of aligning the protection agendas of R2P and WPS. A number of actionable recommendations are made concerning a unification of the agendas to best support the global empowerment of women and the prevention of mass atrocities.

Sara E. Davies, PhD (2005) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University. Her research publications on international refugee law, global health governance and responsibility to protect has appeared in numerous articles and manuscripts. She is co-editor in chief of quarterly journal Global Responsibility to Protect, published by Brill/Martinus NIjhoff.Zim Nwokora, D.Phil (2010) is a Lecturer in Politics at the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University. He teaches and researches topics in Comparative Politics, including political parties, public policy, and research methods. Eli Stamnes is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and holds a PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which she received in 2002. She was the head of the UN Programme at NUPI from 2006 to 2008, and has led the institute’s work on R2P since 2008. Her research interests include critical approaches to peace and security, gender and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).Sarah Teitt is Deputy Director and Researcher at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland, where she is responsible for advancing research and building partnerships aimed at the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities in the Asia Pacific. Her research focuses on Chinese foreign policy and human protection, and the protection and empowerment of women with respect to mass atrocities prevention and response.