PUBLICATIONS

Marie Berry, Milli Lake, Sinduja Raja, and Soraya Zarook. “Hierarchies of Violence, Victimhood, and Remedy in the Pursuit of Women’s Rights After War,” (2025). Global Studies Quarterly, 5(2): 1-12.

Special Issue: Security Dialogue (2025), Caring and Creative Resistance to Violence (edited by Berry and Lake), Special Issue in Security Dialogue 56:6. Articles include:

• Marie Berry and Milli Lake. “Art as an Antidote to Violence”

• Leslie Meyer, Abigail Andrews, & Olvera Cañez, P. “#ResisteGozando (joy as resistance): On the healing power of dance at the US-Mexico border.”

• Maria Martín de Almagro, Priscyll Anctil Avoine, & Yira Miranda Montero. “Singing truth to power: Transformative (gender) justice, musical spatialities and creative performance in periods of transition from violence.”

• Misha Choudhry. “Refusal as caretaking: Lyric poetry and the War on Terror.”

• Sam Ritholtz and Anna Corrigan, “Transformative Aesthetics After War: Grief, Repair, and Feminist Political Agency in the World of Lucila Quieto and Doris Salcedo”

• Q Manivannan, “’I will Resurrect’: Reading and Writing Grief as Political Action”

• Nedha de Silva, Buddhima Padmasiri, Samanthi Guanawardana, “Caring ways of resistance in post-war Sri Lanka”

• Maria Ximena Dávila, “Vital encounters: Violence, multiple (in) securities and the reproduction of ordinary life in Colombia.”

• Liyana Kayali. “Transformative incrementalism: Palestinian women’s strategies of resistance and resilience amid gendered insecurity and neoliberal co-optation.”

Marie E. Berry & Milli Lake (2023) Women’s Rights After War and Genocide: Contradictions and Challenges, Journal of Genocide Research, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2023.2212508

Sinduja Raja (2023) Women’s Rights After War on Paper: An Analysis of Legal Discourse, Journal of Genocide Research, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2023.2212511

Gnei Soraya Zarook (2023) “The Missing Are Considered Dead”: Reflections on a Declaration, Journal of Genocide Research, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2023.2212514

Dhana Laxmi Hamal (2023) Formal Inclusion, Informal Exclusion: Implementation of Women’s Quota System and Political Participation in Post-Civil War Nepal, Journal of Genocide Research, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2023.2212516

Luisa Salazar-Escalante (2023) Engendered Peace Processes and Women’s Political Participation: Lessons from Colombia, Journal of Genocide Research, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2023.2212521

Dominique Vidale-Plaza (2023) A Survivor-Centered and Holistic Ethics of Care: A Reflection on Ethics of Care in Practice and Within Survivor Groups, Journal of Genocide Research, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2023.2212524

Berry, Marie E., and Milli Lake. ‘Women’s Rights After War: On Gender Interventions and Enduring Hierarchies’. Annual Review of Law and Social Science 17, no. 1 (13 October 2021): 459–81. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-113020-085456.

Berry, M.E., & Lake, M. (2021, March 25). To End Violence Against Women, We Need to Imagine New Futures [Blog]. Retrieved April 3, 2021, from https://theglobalobservatory.org/2021/03/to-end-violence-against-women-we-need-to-imagine-new-futures/

Berry, M.E., & Lake, M. (2021, January 5). On Inconvenient Findings: What happens when research findings challenge the work that policy makers are invested in promoting? [Blog]. Retrieved January 12, 2021, from https://duckofminerva.com/2021/01/on-inconvenient-findings.html#

Raja, S., Berry, M.E., & Lake, M. (December 2020). Research Brief: Women’s Rights After War. Folke Bernadotte Academy. https://fba.se/om-fba/publikationer/womens-rights-after-war/

Berry, M.E., & Lake, M. (2020, September 14). When Quotas Come Up Short [Essay]. Retrieved September 15, 2020, from https://bostonreview.net/global-justice-gender-sexuality/marie-e-berry-milli-lake-when-quotas-come-short

Berry, M.E., & Lake, M. (2020, May 1). Imagining a distanced future: centring a politics of love in resistance and mobilisation [Blog]. Retrieved May 15, 2020, from https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2020/05/01/imagining-a-distanced-future-centering-a-politics-of-love-in-resistance-and-mobilisation/

Berry, M. E., & Lake, M. (2017). Thematic Review: Gender Politics after War: Mobilizing Opportunity in Post - Conflict Africa. Politics & Gender, 13(2), 336–349. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X1700006X

Lake, M., & Berry, M. E. (2017, June 6). Women and Power After War [Blog]. Retrieved August 22, 2018, from http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2017/06/06/women-and-power-after-war/

Additional resources that contributed to the development of this project, including books authored by the two principal investigators, are available here. 

AWARDS

Sociology of Human Rights’ Best Scholarly Article Award 2022:

Marie Berry and Milli Lake. “Women’s Rights After War: On Gender Interventions and Enduring Heirarchies.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science, vol. 17, October 2021, pp. 459-481, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-113020-085456.