Élise Féron

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Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute), Ulster University 
My research interests include Feminist Peace Research, diasporas & conflicts, wartime sexual violence, bodies in war & peace.
I love nature, animals, traveling, fantasy books, metal and rock music, so you might see a bit of that here too.
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Finished my book! 🦆🪿🐦‍⬛🦉🦅 Quite depressing on the face of it - just how much we are devastating birds’ habitats and ability to thrive - in more ways than we realize. But also providing much advice as to how we can help directly to reverse these trends. Our world will be lonlier without them - let’s do what we can to help!
Northern Lights over Southern Europe
Credits: Lorenzo Cordero
#nature #space #astrophotography
Google and Microsoft each consumed 24 TWh of electricity during 2023, which is more than 100 individual countries consumed, including Iceland, Tunisia Azerbaijan, and Ghana.:AI Tool Report
Were bones of 1800s battlefield dead dug up for fertilizer and sugar?

Where did all the skeletons go from the Battle of Waterloo? A new book suggests they — and some U.S. soldiers’ bones — were plundered for fertilizer and sugar production.

The Washington Post
Thrilled to announce the publication of this book, which I co-authored with Tarja Väyrynen. It aims to make Feminist Peace Research literature, concepts & discussions accessible to a wide audience. Details: https://www.routledge.com/Feminist-Peace-Research-An-Introduction/Fron-Vyrynen/p/book/9781032201511
Feminist Peace Research: An Introduction

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of gender, feminism and peace. It is based on the argument that feminist thinking is necessary to understand and analyse the core issues in peace and conflict studies and is fundamental to thinking about solutions to global problems and to promoting peaceful conflict transformation. The book centres alternative and critical approaches missing in mainstream peace research and brings forward feminist perspectives on traditional peace res

Routledge & CRC Press
Tennis Althea Gibson blows kisses to a cheering New York City crowd during a 1957 parade in her honor. Born in SC in 1927, Gibson became the first Black American to win a Grand Slam tournament, the French Open in 1956. She went on to win Wimbledon and the US Championship
#BlackHistoryMonth
I am pleased to have contributed a chapter on mediation to the second edition of the 
iconic Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding, out later this year. It is edited by one of my professional heroes and inspirations, Prof Roger Mac Ginty from Durham University 
This was what my neighbourhood looked like a year ago today. You don’t get sun like that no more. Bergkrystallen, Oslo.
The Christmas tree in the forest. Why cut down a tree and bring it into your home when you can take your home into the forest and give everybody some Christmas cheer? And let the tree live another year! I don’t know who does it but it makes me glad!
On Christmas Day. To the right you see polar stratospheric clouds - unmistakable with their rainbow colours.