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Dr Sabrina White

@drswhite.bsky.social

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Youth Accountability, University of Leeds, Child Care Reform

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Helen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Are you going to #BISA2026? @drswhite.bsky.social, @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social Katie Hodgkinson and I have two CPFs for your consideration: Roundtable: "Integrating a youth lens across Intl Studies". Panel: "Shaping the intl through a lens of accountability to children & young ppl"

BISA 2026 Roundtable: Integrating a youth lens across
International Studies
Always present, often overlooked, youth are not just ‘future promise’ but fundamental
to the contemporary contours of IR as we face uncertain futures. This roundtable brings
together scholars working across multiple sub-disciplines of international studies to
reflect on how global challenges might be differently understood and addressed
through integrating a youth lens. While much progress has been made in integrating
critical intersectional and feminist approaches to international studies, including by
drawing more attention to the role of race, class, gender and sexuality in shaping the
international, less cross-cutting attention has been granted to age, especially children
and young people. This roundtable invites a discussion from scholars across different
sub-fields to both explore how youth perspectives shape the landscape of what is
known, what a youth lens offers to interrogating and deconstructing knowledge in their
field, and how youth-attentive scholarship offers new directions for the discipline in this
moment of multiple crises and uncertainty.
We are keen to include speakers from an array of topic areas, including but not limited
to:
• Peacebuilding
• Development
• Critical security studies
• Conflict studies
• Foreign policy
• Environmental politics
• Mass atrocities
• Critical terrorism
• Feminist IR
To express interest to joining this panel, please email Sabrina White at
S.L.White@leeds.ac.uk by Wednesday 29th October with a short paragraph about why
you would like to be part of this roundtable discussion.

CfP BISA 2026 Panel: Shaping the international through
a lens of accountability to children and young people
How would centring accountability to children and youth shift our understandings of this current moment of global crisis and what comes next? Can seeing young people as ‘who counts’ offer new pathways for International Studies to meet emerging challenges? This panel explores what an accountability to children and young people lens adds to approaches to addressing global challenges. Accountability is often equated with punitive and/or technical administrative matters
rather than questions of global justice, normative frameworks and sustainable peace. By centring children and young people as the ‘who counts’ in accountability in theory and practice, this panel explores the contested place and status of children and young people in the international. Amidst rapidly declining investments in peace and
development and vast increases in investments in war and conflict, young people’s rights are rendered optional or deferred until an unspecified ‘later. Threats to promotion and protection of children’s rights and agency exacerbate how we can imagine the scale and impact of global insecurities. This panel reflects on normative, theoretical and
empirical conceptualisations of accountability to children and young people, and draws on how particular formations and applications of youth accountability shape possibilities in countering adultist lenses and opening space for counter-narratives of, for and by young people.
We seek paper contributions from across multiple subdisciplines in international studies, including but not limited to international development, sustainable development, critical security studies, peace and conflict studies, and global governance.
Please submit abstracts for your papers to Sabrina White at S.L.White@leeds.ac.uk
by Wednesday 29th October.

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Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Gender Action for Peace and Security (the network of NGOs in the UK who work on Women, Peace and Security) is advertising for a project manager. saferworld-global.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

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WPS Programme Manager, GAPS - London, UK

The Vacancy Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) is the UK’s Women, Peace and Security civil society network. GAPS was founded to progress the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 o...

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Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Countries at the top of the Corruption Perceptions Index 2023 may enjoy a less corrupt public sector, but they have a lot of work to do to combat transnational corruption in which they are deeply complicit. ➡️ Check out our analysis of corruption in these countries here: buff.ly/3ZdfWT8

This is a graphic table that compares countries at the top of the Financial Secrecy Index and the Corruption Perceptions Index 2023. Many of the countries at the top of the CPI are also at the top of the Financial Secrecy Index.

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