Mimidoo Achakpa
is a doctoral researcher in Security and Strategic Studies at the Nasarawa State University, in Nigeria. Her PhD project examines ‘Post-conflict management in Plateau State and the gender question (2015–2020)’ focusing on the relative impact of conflict on gender, and the various models of post-conflict management and the role of gender. Achakpa is an unapologetic feminist and her areas of expertise include governance, gender, women, peace and security.
Ceren Bulduk
is a doctoral researcher in International Relations/Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (iheid) in Geneva, Switzerland, and an affiliate at the iheid Gender Centre. Bulduk’s areas of expertise include feminist theories, peace and conflict studies, and political violence. Her PhD project examines violence, embodiment, and political communities, drawing on feminist, queer, and affect theories, with a focus on gendered and sexualised violence in the context of the Syrian war.
Rahel Kunz
is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research draws on feminist post-structuralist and postcolonial theories to focus on gender issues in migration and development, and in conflict and security. Kunz has published in International Political Sociology, the Journal of European Integration, Migration Studies, Politics & Gender, the Review of International Political Economy and Third World Quarterly, and is the author of The Political Economy of Global Remittances: Gender, Governmentality and Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2011).
Henri Myrttinen
is a visiting Research Fellow with Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in Belgium. He has worked on gender and peacebuilding issues with numerous non-governmental organisations and research institutions, focusing mostly on Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Central and Eastern Europe. Myrttinen earned a PhD in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with a thesis on masculinities and violence in Timor-Leste.
is International President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (wilpf) and President of wilpf Nigeria. She is the founder of the Joy Onyesoh Foundation, which is dedicated to building resilient communities in Nigeria. An experienced activist, facilitator, organiser, trainer and researcher, Onyesoh’s consultancy and research interests lie in the area of gender and development, with a focus on women, peace and security. She has written a doctoral dissertation on women’s transformative leadership in conflict and post-conflict societies.
Elisabeth Prügl
is Professor of International Relations and Co-director of the Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (iheid), Geneva, Switzerland. Her research and teaching focus on feminist international relations, in particular gender politics in international governance. She is the responsible applicant for the r4d Gender and Conflict research project and also directs the demeter project on land and agricultural commercialisation, both funded by the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d).
Arifah Rahmawati
holds a PhD in Policy Studies from the Post Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada (ugm), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and a Master’s degree in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA. She is currently a lecturer at the Universitas Muhammadiyah Madiun of East Java, Indonesia, and has been a researcher at the ugm’s Center for Security and Peace Studies (csps) since 1997.
Christelle Rigual
is a political scientist and a research affiliate with the Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (iheid), Geneva, Switzerland, where she coordinated the r4d project exploring ‘The Gender Dimensions of Social Conflict, Armed Violence, and Peacebuilding’. She holds a PhD in International Relations and Political Science from the Graduate Institute, Geneva.
Wening Udasmoro
is Professor of Literature and Gender at Universitas Gadjah Mada (ugm), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She received her PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Geneva, Switzerland in 2006. Her main research interests are