Books, Articles and PhDs

This article introduces the global Women’s Safety Index (WSI), outlining its rationale, purpose, and potential applications. The Index consist of three dimensions: Equity, Protection, and Resources, identified as foundational to women’s safety.

Fiji endures one of the world’s highest rates of gender-based violence (GBV), with two in three women experiencing physical or sexual abuse from a male intimate partner. Entrenched colonial legacies, harmful social norms, and economic inequalities fuel this crisis, normalizing the violence and silencing its survivors.

Drawing on gender policy reform theories and global evidence, we analyse how gender mainstreaming has been implemented to inform and drive VAW policy adoption and implementation.

In this spotlight, we examine the patterns of gender mainstreaming diffusion across various policy areas and different government levels, from international and national to subnational policy jurisdictions.

This paper studies the causal impact of female political representation on legislative behavior, social attitudes, and gender-based crime.

Gendered violence is neither incidental nor episodic but structurally produced through transformations in the global political economy, intensified by conflict, authoritarianism, debt and new deglobalising pressures.

This chapter asks how are ‘norms as processes’ shaped by new modes of networking across local and global spaces, and how networking affects a norm’s perceived legitimacy.

War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital examines the war economy from feminist perspectives, bringing fresh thinking in the context of heightened geopolitical tensions.