Gendered Peace through International Law

About this event

Join International Law at Westminster for a talk with Dr Louise Arimatsu and Professor Christine Chinkin on their book Gendered Peace through International Law (Hart 2024). The talk, moderated by Dr Marco Longobardo, will explore the main findings of their open access book, discussing what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on international law.

As noted in the publisher's website, "In order to challenge orthodoxies, the book takes an unconventional approach, merging personal reflections, expert essays, and interviews. It throws the disciplinary net wide, drawing on international law, gender studies, international relations and history. The authors, undisputed global leaders in the field, challenge the reader to unlearn international law, in order to relearn it in a way that makes it more fit for purpose in the contemporary world. This seminal work is a clarion call to think about international law in a new and transformative way."

Speakers

• Dr Louise Arimatsu (LSE)
• Professor Christine Chinkin (LSE)
• Chair and discussant: Dr Marco Longobardo (University of Westminster)

Bios

Dr Louise Arimatsu

Dr Louise Arimatsu is a Visiting Fellow with Centre for Women, Peace and Security at LSE. She was Distinguished Policy Fellow in the Centre where she was co-PI on a three-year AHRC project on 'A Feminist International Law of Peace and Security' and a four-year ERC project on 'Gendered Peace'. She has published and taught extensively on international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law, and refugee law. She did her law conversion course at the University of Westminster.

Professor Christine Chinkin 

Professor Christine Chinkin CMG FBA is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, where she leads three major projects: ‘A Feminist International Law of Peace and Security’ funded by the AHRC, ‘Gendered Peace’ funded by the ERC and the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub. Professor Chinkin was Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security from 2015-2018. Professor Chinkin is a leading expert on international law and human rights law, especially the international human rights of women. She's the author, with Hilary Charlesworth, of The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis, and the co-editor of The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: A Commentary. She has been a consultant or advisor to UN bodies on a range of issues. She was a member of the UN fact-finding missions to Gaza in 2007 and 2009. She was scientific advisor to the Council of Europe Committee that drafted the Convention on Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a barrister and an academic member of Matrix Chambers. She was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2017 Birthday Honours and she was awarded the American Society of International Law Goler T. Butcher Medal.

Dr Marco Longobardo

Dr Marco Longobardo is a Reader in International Law at the University of Westminster. He undertook his doctoral studies at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author of The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (Cambridge University Press, 2018), for which he was awarded the 2021 Paul Reuter Prize. He is the Reviews Editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies and a member of the advisory boards of the International Community Law Review and of the Journal du Droit Transnational.

Location

Portland Hall, University of Westminster, 4–12 Little Titchfield Street, London W1W 7BY