The paper „‘We are creating peace’: everyday peace practices of displaced women in Kenya and Germany“ co-authored with Nadine Segadlo and Hannah Edler has been published in Conflict, Security & Development Open Access.

Abstract: This article explores how displaced women contribute to everyday peace in exile. While research debates largely focus on the nexus of conflict and displacement, peace and specifically displaced women’s peace practices have been widely overlooked. Drawing on Mac Ginty’s concept of everyday peace and Lister’s approach to agency, the array of practices displaced women use to foster everyday peace in their immediate environments in Kenya and Germany are examined. The findings reflect how they leverage their agency both individually and collectively in seeking to establish, sustain and reinstate peaceful conditions despite and indeed due to oftentimes precarious conditions in exile. They actively get out of dangerous situations in search for everyday peace in exile and get by challenges through establishing a form of peaceful normalcy. They further employ collective strategies in getting organised to contribute to peace and engage with activism to get back at injustices and restrictions.

The paper is grounded in the research conducted under the project ‘Women, Forced Migration – and Peace? Peacebuilding Practices of Women in Refugee Camps’. The project was generously supported by the German Foundation for Peace Research (2019–2023). Further information on the project: Link. We are grateful for the funding. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all individuals who took part in the research for their time and trust as well as to everyone who supported the project.

Edler, Hannah, Krause, Ulrike, and Segadlo, Nadine (2024), ‚‘We are creating peace’: Everyday Peace Practices of Displaced Women in Kenya and Germany‘, Conflict, Security & Development, online first: https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2024.2425690