Columba Achilleos
Lecturer (Assistant Prof) @BhamPolsis | Researching WPS, NGOs, gender, race, (in)security, FFP & visual global politics | Feminist Killjoy | Anti-war | She/her | birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gov/…
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosIlan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉 ‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍 Space is limited so register now! 👉 ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosIn our latest issue, Annika Bergman Rosamond contends that the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict is militarized, and informed by "notions of protection that are broadly western-centred and masculinised." This article is #OpenAccess now! 📘 ➡️ buff.ly/g9S1f2C
- Reposted by Columba Achilleoswww.e-ir.info/2026/02/01/i... Interview - Shirin M. Rai at E-IR
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosWe are celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library, the UK’s oldest & largest book, archive & museum collection on the history of women's movement. Join us for an exhibition and year of FREE special events to mark its memory and continue its legacy. www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100 @fotwl.bsky.social
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosBISA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize 🎉 Recognising an individual or group that has made significant contributions to promoting a more inclusive discipline through in relation to a range of areas 🌟 Get nominating today! 👉 ow.ly/mbME50XWw6X Jessica Northey prof toni haastrup
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosFourteen interventions on twenty-five years of Women, Peace and Security. Open access, free to read. “If an anniversary signals a return, a cycle of remembrance, then for WPS that ritual is in disarray… We may wonder: what sort of party does WPS deserve?” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosThe Women, Peace and Security UK Research Network is organising its first workshop. We invite submissions from researchers of all career stages and of any institutional affiliation (or none) based in the UK. Workshop: 19 May Deadline for abstracts: 2 March thedisorderofthings.com/2026/01/30/c...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosAston uni Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement is looking for participants for a workshop on centring abolition as transformative practice in our daily lives within and outside of academia🌟 Deadline 26 Jan & workshop on 12-13 May 🎉 👉 More info on sheet attached below! Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosNew paper! 🚨 It studies anti-trans and anti-migrant media discourses in the UK as symptomatic of an ‘eliminationist news cycle’ in liberal democracies. Doing so, it challenges received wisdom on the role of the media in TJ and maps possibilities for new coalitions. academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosThree UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosColumba and I contributed a short section on abolition feminism and WPS to this @ifjpglobal.bsky.social Conversations piece. Looking forward to reading what all the other awesome contributors have to say about this moment in the history of feminist peace organising.
- Just in time for the holidays, check out our Conversations piece @paulcinnamon.bsky.social “Unhappy Birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25” 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✨⭐ Featuring a stellar line up of WPS scholars & practitioners👇👇👇
- Just in time for the holidays, check out our Conversations piece @paulcinnamon.bsky.social “Unhappy Birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25” 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✨⭐ Featuring a stellar line up of WPS scholars & practitioners👇👇👇
- Reposted by Columba Achilleos🚨Exciting news! Today is pub day for my book Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding. 🚨 You can preorder print copies now and the online edition of the book is already available to subscribers to Oxford Academic at this link: bit.ly/4hP3wdc
- Reposted by Columba Achilleos📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice. buff.ly/hHpXEiG
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosExcited to share the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social featuring research on WPS, gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy, and UNSCR 1325. All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Gendersky Polisky
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosOur special section on #feministforeignpolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social is currently free to access! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social
- Excited to share the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social featuring research on WPS, gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy, and UNSCR 1325. All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Gendersky Polisky
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosComing soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosWith @drljshepherd.bsky.social, revisiting our plea to 'forget' Women, Peace and Security in light of the governments currently trying to make it disappear. theglobalobservatory.org/2025/10/forg...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosInsurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff Monday, December 8, 2025 6:30pm ET online bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosI'm super-excited about this conversation between these feminist activists, theorists, and friends, coming up at @intellpublics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on December 8. Online. Registration link below! @dukepress.bsky.social
- Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff Monday, December 8, 2025 6:30pm ET online bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosNice to see this piece has an issue number now, just as we pass the 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325. @columbaachilleos.bsky.social and I also have a short follow up conversations piece coming shortly... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Columba Achilleos25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda: new Review of International Studies edition by Katrina Lee Koo 🎉 All articles free to read until end of Jan! Inc: Maria Martin de Almagro, Sara E Davies, Hannah Wright, Alexandra Phelan & more! 🌟 Read here 👉 ow.ly/rqR450XhsZt
- Reposted by Columba Achilleos25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda - a new collection from @risjnl.bsky.social complied by Katrina Lee Koo. Browse here - cup.org/4oAmXZq cc @mybisa.bsky.social
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosPleased to see mine and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social 's article, 'Towards an Abolitionist Feminist Peace: State Violence, Anti-Militarism and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda' in this new collection:
- 25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda - a new collection from @risjnl.bsky.social complied by Katrina Lee Koo. Browse here - cup.org/4oAmXZq cc @mybisa.bsky.social
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosIf the aid sector is truly committed to the idea of doing no harm then it should not be using generative AI. Full-stop. But instead we see how once again the sector is a useful playground for capitalist experimentation and expansion. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosThe @mybisa.bsky.social Gendering IR Working Group is now on Bluesky (and LinkedIn)! 🥳 Follow us here for updates and upcoming events.
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosSomething to read on the eve of the 4th FFP ministerial 2 yrs of work; from authors to editors really proud to have worked with so many awesome feminists++ on this & the best co-editors a girl could wish for @columbaachilleos.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social - the smartest minds! 🙏🏾
- 1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy" 📖 #OpenAccess 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 👇👇👇
- 1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy" 📖 #OpenAccess 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 👇👇👇
- 2/ 📝 Notes from the Field #1 @balnik.bsky.social & Younna Christiansen examine how FFP shapes donor funding + peacebuilding dynamics. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- 3/ 📝 Notes from the Field #2 Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde explore civil society's role in FFP in Mexico. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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View full thread💥 Explore the full Special Section #FeministForeignPolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social. Thanks to all contributors! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social @nwelfens.bsky.social @karolinefaerber.bsky.social @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social @balnik.bsky.social @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosWe’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today. The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosCan't wait to see all the defenders of women and girls sharing this message.
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosDelighted to collaborate with the always brilliant @doris-asante.bsky.social on this essay on WPS NAPs as we approach the 25th anniversary of the adoption of UNSCR 1325. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosIncredibly impressed by Kate Scott and Lindsay Day, two brilliant PhD students at USYD who have published this excellent paper on TikTok tradwives and online anti-feminist movements www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Such a pleasure to work with and learn from such smart humans!
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosThis wouldn’t be possible without my fellow African feminists in the trenches
- #OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa - cup.org/4oItz8P - @tonihaastrup.bsky.social #FirstView
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosNew Notes from the Field online from @tonihaastrup.bsky.social as part of this Special Section on #feministforeignpolicy #OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa - cup.org/4oItz8P #FirstView
- Reposted by Columba Achilleos🚨New on the Blog: After 25 years of bipartisan commitment to Women Peace & Security, the UK gov't suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @jamiejhagen.bsky.social make the case for gender equality & inclusion in UK policy. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/08/04/2...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosDomestic violence is a major threat to women around the world but it is also a warning sign for political violence. And yet, it rarely gets the political attention it deserves and requires.
- Reposted by Columba Achilleos📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social analyze how Germany 🇩🇪 represents, negotiates and reproduces its colonial past in their FFP. polisky gendersky buff.ly/Y9B4uMH
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosI'm so happy about @karolinefaerber.bsky.social and my new article with @politicsgenderj.bsky.social 🥰. We draw on @maxczollek.bsky.social and @mamjahid.bsky.social 's work to show how claims of historical responsibility in Germany's Feminist Foreign Policy towards colonialism sustain coloniality /1
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosThe first article and Notes from the Field from our Special Issue with @politicsgenderj.bsky.social on #feministforeignpolicy is online now! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social The first Notes looks at how FFP has influenced donor funding on peacebuilding:
- Feminist foreign policies talk equality, but local feminist peacebuilders still face donor scepticism, unstable funding & political pushback. Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve. 📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosDr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he's treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.
- Reposted by Columba Achilleos“Statutory maternity leave allows most new mums and birthing parents to take up to 52 weeks off work. Statutory maternity pay is paid for up to 39 weeks” right yes I wonder if anyone in government can see the GLARING PROBLEM with this
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosMy department at Lund University recruits 3 Associate Senior Lecturers (BUL) Gender studies: lnkd.in/dPzNNC7G; Social anthropology: lnkd.in/deXFaPXf; Sociology: lnkd.in/dK5BnZxz. Positions correspond to tenure-track (50/50 research/teaching) w/h permanent employment after 4 yrs. Apply by 31 August!
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosInside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ Extraordinary work by my colleagues here on.ft.com/4kE1EUn
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- Reposted by Columba Achilleos👀 The article is a part of a @politicsgenderj.bsky.social special issue on Feminist Foreign Policy curated by Professor @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the whole special issue in autumn.
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosFeminist foreign policies talk equality, but local feminist peacebuilders still face donor scepticism, unstable funding & political pushback. Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve. 📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosNon-violent direct action is now as bad as suicide bombing civilians, mass rape, and summary executions. It wasn't even close: 382 useful idiots against 26 hold-outs. And these are the people who dare to lecture on the ills of 'moral equivalence' and pearlclutch over the loss of public trust.
- Reposted by Columba Achilleos📬 Forthcoming on European Politics and Society,the 2nd article on my @esrciaasurrey.bsky.social project on the early women of European integration,thanks to the writing time at ULB with @nathaliebrack.bsky.social more on this at the nxt @uaces.bsky.social annual general conf @cbesurrey.bsky.social
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosWith summer in full swing, we have launched our July issue today!☀️ 🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific 🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more 💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance 📚 24 book reviews Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosMy first single authored publication is out! This article critiques the carceral logics of the ICC. I offer this critique alongside abolitionist tools to show how we can start to move away from harmful, carceral justice, beginning with the abolition of the ICC. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 1) Our new article “Sun, Sea and Sexual Violence: The Political Economy of Party Tourism” in @iajournal.bsky.social with @nicolapratt.bsky.social digs into the dark side of global party tourism—and the political economy that enables it. academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
- 2) In 2022, Cyprus’s Supreme Court overturned a controversial conviction against a British woman previously found guilty of falsifying gang-rape allegations against 12 Israeli tourists. Her case highlights deeper systemic issues within global party tourism.
- 3) We use the 2019 Cyprus rape allegation case to unpack how sexual & gender-based violence thrives in tourism spaces and why it’s silenced. Party resorts create ‘tourism bubbles’: liminal spaces where everyday norms break down—and where profit, pleasure, and patriarchy rule.
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View full thread👉 Sexual & gender-based violence in party tourism isn’t accidental. It’s structural. Silence protects profit. Survivors pay the price. Read the full article here: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a... @nicolapratt.bsky.social
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosGot interviewed by @itsjoshmilton.bsky.social for the Metro. The article interviews disabled people on the impact of the UK governments proposed savage benefit cuts and looming policies of austerity metro.co.uk/2025/03/26/i...
- Reposted by Columba AchilleosExcited to co-host this Publishing and Networking workshop with the BISA - Gendering IR working group on Tuesday 17 June. Meet editors Shine Choi, Cristina Masters & Marysia Zalewski. Brainstorm research ideas. Connect with feminist scholars. open.substack.com/pub/centrefo...
