Abstract
This chapter critically reviews the relationship between women, peace, security and justice from a postcolonial feminist perspective. Currently, this relationship is marked out, internationally, by the Women, Peace and Security Agenda of the United Nations (UN), which carries a strongly normative discourse, associating greater gender equality with the possibility of guaranteeing peace in a lasting way. This takes the form of positive conceptions of peace that prioritize gender equality, considerations about the victims of violence and social justice in the postwar period. The ideals of classical liberalism and the conception of democratic peace that have permeated the UN’s ideology since its creation are updated to include gender. Yet this idea can be problematized in several ways, and the chapter concludes by developing a synthesis of ideas for the construction of peace and social justice which takes into account the experiences and specificities of women in the global South.
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