Lab Projects
Women Peacebuilders in Exile
Project leader: Alexandra Moore, amoore@binghamton.edu and Suzy Lee, suzylee@binghamton.edu
This project addresses a gap in current literature and policymaking around the applicability of the UN鈥檚 Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda to the needs and expertise of women in exile (forced migrants, asylees, or refugees). Given that the WPS agenda is structured through nation-states, what happens to that agenda when women peacebuilders are forced to flee their home countries? How can WPS serve the basic needs and political work of exiled and refugee women? And how can we advance the work and networks of women peacebuilders in exile? This project addresses all three questions with academic, applied, and pedagogical outputs. Through analysis of WPS and the scholarly literature around it, we will identify gaps in its application to women forced into exile (academic). Working with our local refugee and immigrant legal services organizations as well as the global Women鈥檚 International League for Peace and Freedom and our international partners, we will develop materials for service providers and activists to use WPS for the protection of women refugee rights in Binghamton and beyond (applied). Because we regularly place and mentor student interns in these organizations, the collaboration with them will also strengthen our academic-community partnerships to enhance student learning (pedagogical).