Feminist Peace and Conflict Theory

Reflects on the need of visibility of women in conflicts and has led to a broader understanding of
security issues. FPCT introduced the interconnectedness of all forms of violence: domestic, societal,
state based and inter-state and its gendered dimension

Feminist theory argues that women should enjoy the same rights as men. Feminist
theory is not readily categorized as a single branch of political thought.

Critical race theory

is an intellectual movement and a framework of legal analysis according to which (1) race is a
culturally invented category used to oppress people of colour and (2) the law and legal institutions in the
United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, political, and
economic inequalities between white and nonwhite people.

Critical race theorists argue that laws that explicitly impose a neutral standard with respect to
race are capable of addressing only the most egregious forms of race-based oppression and often have
only limited (though still valuable) practical benefits for disadvantaged minority groups, affording them
equality of treatment or opportunity but not equality of results.

Postmodern theory and postcolonial theory

Postmodern theory provides pathways through which the postcolonial world can
talk back to the old empire with a renewed sense of legitimacy. The postmodern and the
postcolonial also come together irrevocably in resisting imperialist culture and the totalizing
systems and manifestations of modern thought.

Queer theory

Queer theory is the lens used to explore and challenge how scholars, activists,
artistic texts, and the media perpetrate gender- and sex-based binaries, and its goal is to
undo hierarchies and fight against social inequalities.
Queer theory emphasises the fluid and humanly performed nature of sexuality – or better,
sexualities. It questions socially established norms and dualistic categories with a special focus
on challenging sexual (heterosexual/homosexual), gender (male/female), class (rich/poor),
racial (white/non-white) classifications.
Poststructuralism
represents a set of attitudes and a style of critique that developed in critical response to
the growth and identification of the logic of structural relations that underlie social
institutions—whether they exist in terms of politics, economics, education, medicine, literature,
or the sciences.
They think truth is up for debate: your truth and my truth may be completely different. To use a
simple example: a Hindu and a Christian have fundamentally different ideas about whose
god is real. These two people have different ideas about the 'truth'
Theories of globalization and world systems in conflict
The world systems theory, developed by sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, is an approach to
world history and social change that suggests there is a world economic system in
which some countries benefit while others are exploited
Wallerstein's (1979) world systems approach uses an economic and political basis to
understand global inequality. Development and underdevelopment were not stages in a
natural process of gradual modernization, but the product of power relations and colonialism

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