QUT Centre for Justice member, Dr Helen Berents has co-authored an article with young women peacebuilders, Erika Yague, and Shadi Rouhshahbaz for The Lowy Institute The Interpreter Series, to commemorate International Women’s Day.
The article titled, “Young feminist leadership is the future of peacebuilding” discusses how intergenerational feminist leadership by women and youth can advance peace and security for all.
Helen is currently an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow on the project Youth Leadership and the Future of Peace and Security examining youth advocacy and engagement in the context of the UN’s emergent Youth, Peace and Security Agenda. Her research is centrally concerned with both representations of young people in contexts of crises and conflict, and with engagements with the lived experience of violence-affected young people. She has also developed research projects on the role of popular culture and social media in the representation and mediation of understandings of political crises and conflicts. Broadly, she is interested in questions of how people are rendered insecure by institutions of authority and power, how young people are politicised but not seen as political, and how feminist and narrative methodologies open space to find the everyday within these explorations.
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