TY - JOUR
T1 - The Social Life of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
T2 - A Digital Social Network Analysis
AU - Hamilton, Caitlin
AU - McSwiney, Jordan
AU - Naam, Nyibeny Gum
AU - Shepherd, Laura J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by Discovery grant DP160100212, awarded to Laura J. Shepherd by the Australian Research Council. We are grateful to the Editors and anonymous reviewers for their constructive engagement with this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 University of Kent.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In the twenty years since the adoption of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 on “women, peace and security” (in 2000), civil society organisations have continued to shape the agenda's development and work towards its implementation, although geographical and other disparities in recognition, access, and authority over the agenda exist. In this research, we explore the online interactions among civil society organisations working on policy and practice related to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Informed by a postcolonial theoretical framework, and using social network analysis, we analyse data from the Twitter and Facebook accounts of a WPS social network, seeded by social media pages of 21 organisations. Our data suggest that a small group of organisations based in the global North have disproportionate visibility in online activities related to the WPS agenda, and that this has implications for issues of diversity and representation in the network.
AB - In the twenty years since the adoption of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 on “women, peace and security” (in 2000), civil society organisations have continued to shape the agenda's development and work towards its implementation, although geographical and other disparities in recognition, access, and authority over the agenda exist. In this research, we explore the online interactions among civil society organisations working on policy and practice related to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Informed by a postcolonial theoretical framework, and using social network analysis, we analyse data from the Twitter and Facebook accounts of a WPS social network, seeded by social media pages of 21 organisations. Our data suggest that a small group of organisations based in the global North have disproportionate visibility in online activities related to the WPS agenda, and that this has implications for issues of diversity and representation in the network.
KW - civil society organisations
KW - social network analysis
KW - UNSCR 1325
KW - WPS agenda
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099976699&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13600826.2021.1875996
DO - 10.1080/13600826.2021.1875996
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099976699
SN - 1469-798X
VL - 36
SP - 1
EP - 24
JO - Global Society
JF - Global Society
IS - 1
ER -