ABSTRACT
The imagining of more creative and emancipatory ways of building peace is the underlying goal of feminist peace research. For most feminist peace scholars, the concept of peace means more than merely a world without war. It involves, among other things, unpacking and transforming the complex power dynamics, including patriarchy, colonialism and extractive economies, that shape the lives of humans and more-than-humans. There is no single feminist frame within which imagining peace takes place. In this chapter, we showcase three alternatives—comprehensive peace, feminist ecological pacifism and collective peace agency—to illustrate how feminist peace might be imagined and what it might mean.
