HUMAN SECURITY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE FEMINIST APPROACH: THE CASE OF IRAQ FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CIVIL SOCIETY

This study aims to highlight the importance of feminist theories in the security studies by a case study. The contribution of human security debate in the perspective of gender and feminist security studies are substantial in current agenda especially liberal and critical approaches previously focused on this matter in different aspects. In the post-conflict areas like Iraq, women are not only the victims of insecurity but also the actors for outlining the emancipatory value of the human security. They are the actors that fight with state-centric, masculinely constructed security; they are demanding and producing it. This study will analyze theoretically how feminist security studies are evaluating human security; by that, it will seek on which fields women's insecurities occurs. Our work is comprising the field study that has been conducted in 2012, Iraq. We will examine the Interviews with NGO's and civil society experts in Baghdad and Erbil. Additionally, shadow reports and Iraqi Women Network’s reports on contemporary ISIL violence after 2014, will show us the monitoring mechanisms of the NGO’s in human security aspect