Feminist Activism in Resistance analyses the work and activism of women’s organisations in Kosovo since the late 1980s and early 1990s up to 2019. By looking at their socio-political agency, development, features and contributions, the book draws a genealogy of these organisations.

This book covers four key dimensions: the relationship between “nonviolent” resistance and peacebuilding; the analysis of its gender dimensions; the analysis of the activism in favour of women’s rights within the framework of violent and non-violent conflicts; and its relationship with the international liberal peacebuilding architecture and mechanisms. Although the relationship between women’s organisations and international organisms in post-war contexts is complex and multidirectional, the book focuses on the dynamics of international cooperation with these groups, and resisting dynamics feminist organisations have developed, precisely towards international intervening agents and their funding dynamics.

This book will interest students, researchers and academics of International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Security Studies, Development Studies and Gender Studies, especially those with a particular interest in the political and social development of the Balkans and/or Kosovo over the past few decades.

Itziar Mujika Chao teaches at the Department of Political Science and is member of the Hegoa Institute for International Cooperation and Development Studies, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She holds a PhD in Development Studies from the UPV/EHU, and obtained her Masters in International Studies and Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies at the UPV/EHU and the University of Barcelona, respectively. Dr. Mujika Chao’s research focuses on feminist activism, gender politics of violent and nonviolent conflict, civil resistance, post-conflict peacebuilding and development, and the implementation of and responses/resistances to the United Nations’ Security Council Women, Peace and Security agenda.