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LSE WPS regularly publishes policy briefings, reports and academic papers. You can find an archive of the Centre's output, as well as audio recordings of events, below.

The Centre for Women, Peace and Security Policy Brief Series presents policy analysis and recommendations arising from academic research and practice in the global field of women, peace and security.

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    The Borders of Solidarity: War and Displacement of Ukrainian Roma Women Refugees in Poland

    Iliana Sarafian, Agnieszka Caban and Alice Robinson (01/2025)

    With special thanks to the following contributors: Roksana Mroczek Wajs, Karolina Kwiatkowska, Karol Kwiatkowski, Kamila Fiałkowska, Ignacy Józwiak, Maksym Nakonieczny, Agnieszka Koscianska, Helena Patzer and Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz.

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    The Future of the UK’s Women, Peace and Security Policy

    Paul Kirby, Hannah Wright and Aisling Swaine (07/2022)

    This briefing evaluates the UK’s contribution to the Women, Peace and Security agenda over the last fifteen years. Addressing strengths and limitations, it analyses successive thematic priorities, maps WPS spending, and considers common criticism. It draws out recommendations for future plans on infrastructure and monitoring, domestic applications and policy ambition.

    Image credit: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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    Criminalising the sex buyer: experiences from the Nordic Region

    Niina Vuolajärvi (06/2022)

    This brief examines the effects of criminalisation of sex buying on sex workers and people in the sex trade, especially on their vulnerability to violence and exploitation. Because in the Nordic region, as in many other countries, many of the people in the sex trade are migrants, this brief also examines how the policing of commercial sex under the ‘Nordic model’ intersects with immigration policies and their enforcement.

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    An inclusive and sustainable approach to relief and recovery

    Our Generation for Inclusive Peace (OGIP) (05/2022)

    This policy brief provides tangible recommendations
    to power holders, including multilateral organisations, governments and INGOs, with the goal of generating radically transformative and truly inclusive policy interventions to ensure that relief and recovery is meaningful, just and sustainable.

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    Gender Mainstreaming in Peacebuilding

    An Jacobs and Katerina Krulisova (04/2021)

    This brief outlines the key challenges to the operational implementation of gender mainstreaming in operational contexts through interviews with peacebuilders deployed to EU and UN missions in Mali, the Central African Republic, Niger, Kosovo, and Georgia and makes policy recommendations to help overcome these obstacles for successful implementation.

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    Defending the Future: Gender, Conflict and Environmental Peace

    Helen Kezie-Nwoha, Keina Yoshida, Hannah Bond (03/2021)

    The year 2021 marks the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) which is set to take place in Glasgow in November. This brief centres women and girls’ lived realities of climate change to call for transformative change for a greener, safer and more equal world.

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    Women Human Rights Defenders: Left behind in the women, peace and security agenda

    Amy Dwyer (02/2020)

    Twenty years on from the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, and 10 resolutions later, woman human rights defenders (WHRDs) continue to face gendered obstacles in their work. This policy brief outlines how the UN Security Council, states and donors can deliver on their commitments to protect WHRDs more effectively.

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    Multiple Deployments, Cross-Border War-Women and Implications for Building Stronger Military Institutions

    Grace Akello (01/2020)

    Frequent deployment of Ugandan military personnel simultaneously contributes to improved security in the immediate sense in some countries, but when protracted, deployments can have complex social, economic and psychological impacts. This brief explores these impacts and makes recommendations to mitigate these protracted challenges.

The LSE WPS blog aims to make a gender analysis of peace and security available in an accessible way for a wide readership. We welcome well-argued, evidence-based submissions that can improve public debate and that explore contemporary issues relating to women, peace and security and women’s human rights in conflict-affected contexts: blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps

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    To browse our back catelogue of podcasts and event recordings please visit our audio archive Audio Archive.