International Political Sociology (2019) 13, 86–107 Collective Discussion: Piecing-Up Feminist Peace Research 1 A NNICK T.R. W IBBEN University of San Francisco C ATIA C ECILIA C ONFORTINI Wellesley College S ANAM R OOHI Universität Erfurt S ARAI B. A HARONI Ben-Gurion University of the Negev L EENA VASTAPUU Tampere University AND T IINA VAITTINEN Tampere University Feminist peace research is an emerging field of social sciences that is transdisciplinary, intersectional, and normative—as well as transnational. Although it draws from disciplines such as peace and conflict research (in and outside of international relations [IR]) as well as feminist security studies, it also differs from them in terms of research scope and research design. Consequently, it not only provides insights on what can be termed “spectacular” instances of violence or peace but also sharpens our analysis of the everydayness of reconciliatory measures and the mundaneness of both violence and peace. As a feminist endeavor, feminist peace research necessarily asks questions about unequal gender relations and power struc- tures within any given conflict environment. In this collective discussion piece, a diverse group of scholars, who formed part of the recently con- vened Feminist Peace Research Network, explores and further develops the parameters of this emergent field through a set of short conversation pieces. In this collective discussion, we respond to IPS’s call for conversations that decenter dominant modes of knowledge and challenge the conventional parameters of cur- rent debates through novel approaches. We propose that these might be found in the transdisciplinary context of feminist peace research (hereafter FPR). FPR is an emerging transnational field of research, which is transdisciplinary, intersectional, normative, and transnational. While drawing from disciplines such as peace and conflict research (in and outside of IR) as well as feminist security studies, it also differs from them in terms of scope: FPR tends to further challenge disciplinary (and other) boundary-making, allowing for conceptual and methodological cross- pollination to occur. To further the search for (feminist) peace, transdisciplinary 1 Piece up: The act of tagging (spray-paint/marker/carving, a well-organized, very detailed, and well put together tag on usually a large area), https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=piece%20up. Wibben, Annick T.R. et al. (2019) Collective Discussion: Piecing-Up Feminist Peace Research 1 . International Political Sociology, doi: 10.1093/ips/oly034 Corresponding author e-mail: awibben@usfca.edu © The Author(s) (2018). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ips/article/13/1/86/5266870 by Tampere University Library. Department of Health Sciences user on 28 January 2022