Laura Wise

Laura Wise (she/her) is a Research Fellow and Programme Coordinator with the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep). Laura’s research explores the margins of peace processes and conflict-affected societies and their intersections with the politics of inclusion. She is particularly interested in local peace processes, ethnopolitics, and women, peace and security. As part of the PeaceRep consortium, Laura is leading research projects investigating gender perspectives in peace agreements and women's participation in complex peace processes. This research is funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO). Her work has informed United Nations policy on gender and peace processes, most recently the UN Secretary General's annual report on women, peace and security. Laura is part of the team behind the PA-X Peace Agreements Database, a dataset of peace agreements globally from 1990 to 2023, and a co-creator of PeaceFem, a mobile phone app that illustrates women’s inclusion in peace processes around the world. She has previously worked for the UN Women project 'Enhancing Women’s Leadership for Sustainable Peace in Fragile Contexts in the MENA Region', supporting women engaged in peace processes in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Libya.

Selected research outputs:

 

• PeaceFem mediation application https://peacerep.org/digital-resources/peacefem/
• PA-X Gender (2023) https://www.peaceagreements.org/wsearch
• Wise, L. & Asproni, A., (2022) Gender perspectives in peace agreements: Time for a new approach?, PeaceRep.
• Wise, L. (2021) ‘Peace agreements with a gender perspective are still an exception, not the rule’, LSE Women, Peace, and Security.
• Wise, L., Forster, R. & Bell, C. (2019). Local Peace Processes: Opportunities and Challenges for Women’s Engagement (PA-X Report, Spotlight Series). 
• Wise, L., & Bell, C. (2018). Gaining Ground: Women and Territorial Power-Sharing in Peace Processes (Gender Briefing Series). UN Women.