Young feminists speak out.

By Maria Deiana and Claire Pierson.

More than a decade since the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland’s peace has failed to address women’s demands for inclusion and equality, and the peace remains incomplete.

On the one hand, women express dissatisfaction with an essentially male-dominated peacebuilding process that continues to silence their experiences and places great constraint on their agency. On the other, local feminist and trade unions activists have drawn attention to the pernicious intersection between Northern Ireland’s transition to peace and the logic of neoliberal reforms which, having disproportionally affected women’s economic position, works to further entrench gender inequalities.