Dr Melanie Hoewer MA
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Biography:
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Melanie Hoewer joined SPIRE in 2012. Before that she was teaching in the UCD School of Social Justice and in the Irish School of Ecumenics in TCD and she worked in a EU-Daphne funded project on Gender Violence and LGBT rights and on issues of conflict transformation, human rights and social justice for Amnesty International (Irish Section), the Latin American Solidarity Centre and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Mexico and Colombia). She is academic adviser to the Consultative Group of the Department of Foreign Affairs on the UNSCR 1325 Action Plan on women, peace and security in Ireland. Melanie's primary areas of research are comparative ethno-national identity, conflict and settlement processes, gender equality and women's rights, Latin American politics and Northern Ireland. Her PhD thesis examined gender and identity in peace and conflict processes in Northern Ireland and Chiapas, Mexico. She has since written on intersecting boundary processes in the ethno-national conflict and settlement processes, gender identity and women's rights in Iran and Ireland, approaches to Gender Based Violence in Ireland and the status of women in Ireland. |
Research Interests
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Comparative ethno-national identity, conflict and settlement processes, gender equality and women's rights, Latin American politics, Northern Ireland |
Research Projects
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council (IRC) Title : Addressing Cultural Legacies of Conflict. Towards an intercultural and inter-dimensional Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security. Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-12 / 30-SEP-13 |
Book Chapters
| Hoewer, Melanie (2013) 'Intersectional Identities and Differing Responses to Gender-based Violence' In: Amodeo, Anna Lisa; O'Donnell, Katherine; Platero Mendez, Lucas; Valerio, Paolo (eds). Homophobia and Transphobia: Gender-based Violences. Houndmills Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
| Fazaeli, Roja; Hoewer, Melanie (2013) 'Ireland's Relationship to the United Nations Regarding Rights of Women' In: O'Sullivan, Aisling; Schabas, William A (eds). Diplomacy and Policy-making towards International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Perspectives from State Archives. Galway: National University of Ireland. [Details] |
| O'Donnell, Katherine; Vasquez del Aguila, Ernesto; Hoewer, Melanie (2013) 'Reframing Gender-based Violence: the Irish Context' In: Amodeo, Anna Lisa; O'Donnell, Katherine; Platero Mendez, Lucas; Valerio, Paolo (eds). Homophobia and Transphobia: Gender-based Violences. Houndmills Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
| Cardenas, Miguel Eduardo; Hoewer, Melanie (2004) 'La Comunidad Andina: Ventajas y Obstáculos respeto al Libre Comercio y a la Seguridad Humana' In: Cardenas, Miguel Eduardo (eds). El Futuro de la Integración Andina. Bogota: FESCOL-CEREC. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Hoewer, Melanie (2013) 'UN Resolution 1325 in Ireland: Its Implication for Women's Rights'. Irish Political Studies, . [Details] |
| Hoewer, Melanie (2013) 'Women, Violence and Social Change: The private Realm between Tradition and Transition'. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, . [Details] |
| Hoewer, Melanie (2013) 'Boundary Crossings in Ethno-National Conflict and Settlement Processes'. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, . [Details] |
Other Journals
| Hoewer, Melanie (2012) 'UNSCR 1325 in Northern Ireland: Opportunities, Challenges and Complexities' e International Relations . [Details] |
| Hoewer, Melanie (2009) 'Fighting Back for her Rights' Voices of Tomorrow . [Details] |
Published Reports
| Hoewer, Melanie (2004) Evaluierung des Konfliktprojekts der Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Mexiko. FESMEX, Mexico. [Details] |
| Hoewer, Melanie (2004) Kurzbericht. Die aktuelle Situation im Magdalena Medio Delta, Kolumbien. Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Colombia (FESCOL), Bogota. [Details] |
| Hoewer, Melanie (2002) Bericht zur aktuellen Lage im mexikanischen Bundesstaat Chiapas. Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Mexico (FESMEX), Mexico. [Details] |
Newsletter
| Hoewer, Melanie (2011) Voices and visions on women, peace and security in my work. Newsletter [Details] |
Conference Contributions
| Hoewer, Melanie (2012) UN Resolution 1325 in Ireland: Its Implication for Women's Rights. [Refereed Abstracts], Politics, Culture and Society in a Changing Ireland, PSAI 2012 Annual Conference, Derry/Londonderry , 19-OCT-12 - 21-OCT-12. |
| Hoewer, Melanie (2012) Intersecting boundary processes in the ethno-national mobilisations and conflict settlement processes in Chiapas and Northern Ireland. [Refereed Abstracts], Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries, 22nd Annual ASEN Conference, London School of Economics , 27-MAR-12 - 29-MAR-12. |
| Hoewer, Melanie (2011) Participation, Positioning, Perspectives: Women's voices in ethnonational mobilisation and demobilisation processes. [Refereed Abstracts], Association for the Studies of Nationalities (ASN) 2011 World Convention, Columbia University, New York, USA , 14-APR-11 - 16-APR-11. |
| Hoewer, Melanie (2011) Framing the Work on Gender Based Violence: Experiences from Ireland. [Invited Oral Presentation], Hermes Linking Network to fight sexual and gender stigma, Naples , 07-OCT-11 - 08-OCT-11. |
| Hoewer, Melanie (2009) Thinking about conflict - thinking about change. Gendered and ethnicised identity in peace and conflict situations. [Invited Oral Presentation], Gender Violence and Gender Justice: Critical Perspectives on Post-Conflict, Emory University, Atlanta/USA , 07-MAY-09 - 09-MAY-09. |
| Hoewer, Melanie (2009) Bringing in intersectionality. Ways of linking ethnicity and gender in peace and conflict situations. [Refereed Abstracts], ISPP Annual Conference, Trinity College Dublin , 14-JUL-09 - 17-JUL-09. | |||||||||
| Fazaeli, Roja; Hoewer, Melanie (2011) Gendered images and women's rights in Iran and Ireland. [Invited Oral Presentation], Cultural Contacts between Ireland and Iran, University College Cork , 22-OCT-11 - 22-OCT-11. | |||||||||
| Hoewer, Melanie (2010) Cruzando fronteras y construyendo puentes: El género y la identidad en procesos de la paz y del conflicto. [Invited Oral Presentation], CIESAS research seminar, CIESAS, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico , 22-JUL-10 - 22-JUL-10. | |||||||||
| Hoewer, Melanie (2010) Retos tensiones y problemas en el trabajo con mujeres y propuestas y caminos para seguir adelante. [Oral Presentation], Encuentro de mujeres trabajando con mujeres, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico , 26-JUL-10 - 27-JUL-10. | |||||||||
| Hoewer, Melanie (2010) Equality in difference: Positioning and Perspective of Women in Processes of Contentious Politics. [Non Refereed Paper/Abstract Presented at Conference], Workshop on the work of Martha Fineman., 21 May 2010 in University College Dublin, University College Dublin , 21-MAY-10 - 21-MAY-10. | |||||||||
| Hoewer, Melanie (2010) When academia meets activism. [Oral Presentation], Global Irish Institute Research Seminar, University College Dublin , 26-OCT-10 - 26-OCT-10. | |||||||||
| Hoewer, Melanie as part of Sibeal (2011) Feminist Scholarship, Activism and Creativity. [Conference Organising Committee Member], 2011 Sibéal Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of Limerick , 25-NOV-11 - 26-NOV-11. | |||||||||
| Hoewer, Melanie; Curran, Aimee; Lounasmaa, Aura; Almquist, Marja; Galway Feminist Society (2010) Organisation of conference, chair. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Women in Action - Active Genders: Interdisciplinary Gender and Feminist Postgraduate Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway , 26-NOV-10 - 27-NOV-10. | |||||||||
| Hoewer, Melanie; Almquist, Marja; Curran, Aimee; Lounasmaa, Aura (2009) Organisation of conference, chair. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Sibéal Listens: Fresh Voices and New Directions in Feminist and Gender Research, University College Dublin , 26-SEP-09 - 27-SEP-09. | |||||||||
| Hoewer, Melanie (2009) Situating ¿Irishness¿: Fashioning Identity in Time and Space. [Oral Presentation], Gendered and Ethnicised Identity in the Peace and Conflict Process in Chiapas and in Northern Ireland, UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin , 19-MAY-09 - 19-MAY-09. | |||||||||
| Hoewer, Melanie (2009) Crossing borders. Gender and Identity in peace and conflict processes. [Invited Oral Presentation], Gender Research Forum, , 10 February 2009, National University of Ireland, Galway , 10-FEB-09 - 10-FEB-09. | |||||||||
| Hoewer, Melanie (2009) The importance to analyse the intersection of Gender and Identity in peace and conflict processes. [Oral Presentation], Graduate Research Forum, University College Dublin , 15-JAN-09 - 15-JAN-09. | |||||||||
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Committees
| Committee : PSAI Gender and Politics Specialist Group |
| Committee : PSAI Peace and Conflict Studies Specialist Group |
Outreach Activities
| Academic Advisor on the Monitoring Group for the implementation of UNSCR 1325 of the Conflict Resolution Unit (Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland) |