Dr Nour Abu Assab

In this interdisciplinary dialogue, we will deliberate on our frames of “feminist peace”. We attend to this conversation as queer feminist scholars whose work cuts across various disciplines including education and peace studies, sociology and queer studies, sexuality and policy studies. Using a decolonial feminist methodology, “friendship/kitchen table” conversation we address different questions that address the coloniality of gender as it intersects with ‘peace’, race and empire. We aim to unpack our notions of feminism, peace, and feminist peace by thinking through our geopolitical positionalities (Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, United Kingdom, United States), as well as our different academic, activist and practice fields and genealogies. We centre differential material realities and structural inequalities, pandemic, racial capitalism, (im)migration, militarization, securitization, violence, and on-going war and conflict. Our guiding questions include: what is our vision of feminist peace? How is our vision informed by our intersectional, queer, transnational and decolonial feminist politics and praxis? How does this vision allow us to articulate and activate different political demands that work towards transformative forms of justice?