Objetives

  • Contribute to achieving more inclusive, innovative and reflective societies by giving visibility to women and peace and including new and innovative theoretical and methodological approaches.
  • Include the feminist and gender approach and the perspective of research on peace in the analysis of the creation, consolidation and transformation of discourses on peace in Western societies, and contribute to knowledge of the history of women and peace and the historic relationship between both.
  • Analyze the conceptualization and representation of peace as a woman since the early days of Western society (i.e., the classical world and Christianity); the evolution, projection and consolidation of this concept at another key period of Western culture (i.e. the Renaissance and humanism); and the active role women started to play as creators of narrations on peace, evolving from being mere represented figures to main players with their own discourse.
  • Explore the different ways in which women have been represented as peace (e.g., abundance, fertility, wealth, calm) both in written texts (e.g., philosophical, political, religious, poetic) and in different types of artistic manifestations.
  • Analyze the reasons that have led women to become active thinkers of peace as well as their strategies and different ways of thinking about and expressing peace.
  • Explore and disseminate the voices of women who contributed to conceptualize and defend peace and advocated for the presence of women in spaces of knowledge and power from the end of the Middle Ages and during Humanism.
  • Analyze the discourses on peace of Andalusian women who distinguished themselves by their activism, thoughts, artistic creations and other aspects and included peace in their works and activity.