2026 European Security Studies Conference

Session

Gender, Politics, and Security

NTRAD2

11 Jun 2026, 13:00

Stockholm University

455. Are Tradwives Making Social Reproduction Great Again? How Male Supremacist Women Strengthen Far-Right Extremism, Militarism and War

Crystal Whetstone (Bilkent University)

11/06/2026, 13:00

Non-Traditional Security Challenges - Gender

Paper Abstract (Closed Panels)

Non-traditional security challenges are on the rise due, in part, to a growing far-right that interlinks with cyber(in)security. This includes the phenomenon of tradwives, or so-called traditional wives, a growing global movement with origins in the west, who actively further male supremacism, militarism and other forms of violence, even as they are seen as silly and/or non-political. The...

498. No Woman's Land: Securitisation of Female Forced Migration in Afghanistan

Jéssica da Costa Pereira (NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities)

11/06/2026, 13:10

Non-Traditional Security Challenges - Gender

Paper Abstract (Closed Panels)

Forced migration is a phenomenon present in globalisation’s dynamics, as is the absence of women in the conceptualisation of the processes that shape the lives of citizens. At the intersection of these two realities, we aim to analyse female forced migration as a security issue, analysing the absence of gender in the definition of forced migrant by the United Nations. From a methodological...

401. Artistic Resilience-Building in Lithuania’s Local Security Policy

Anna Luisa Reinhardt (Sciences Po, Northern German Lutheran Church, Lithuanian Diakonija)

11/06/2026, 13:20

Non-Traditional Security Challenges - Gender

Paper Abstract (Closed Panels)

Abstract

Lithuanian orphans sing patriotic songs at Šakiai Diakonija, my diaconal workplace, located just a 20-minute drive from the Russian border—and roughly 2 minutes for the medium-range missiles stationed in Kaliningrad. Recentring human security in the investigation of children’s lives at EU borders, this contribution offers valuable insights into **pre-conflict preventive...

441. Gendering Non-Traditional Security: A Comparative Analysis of Sexual Violence, Reconciliation and Post-War Development in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Colombia

Teodora Stoicescu (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration)

11/06/2026, 13:30

Non-Traditional Security Challenges - Gender

Paper Abstract (Closed Panels)

This paper will focus on the gender-based violence during armed conflicts as a non-traditional security challenge that is affecting the post-conflict development, stability and any peacebuilding effort. The analysis will be situated within feminist studies and will focus on how post-conflict approaches towards policies, reconciliation and reparations need to address sexual violence and the...