My research uses intersectional, decolonial feminist lenses to analyse conflict mediation and diplomacy, centring on the practices of international organisations like the United Nations. I use an array of qualitative and quantitative methods to construct interpretive research designs that parse how conflict mediation and diplomacy are gendered, with particular attention to how everyday institutional practices sustain or challenge oppressive structures.
PhD in Political Science, Syracuse University
B. Arts (French), B. Development Studies, First Class Honours, University of Adelaide
Diploma of Languages, University of Adelaide
The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and the Gendered Logics of United Nations Mediation. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in October 2024.
Standfield, C. 2022. ‘Who Gets to be a Virtuoso? Diplomatic Competence through an Intersectional Lens’. Hague Journal of Diplomacy.
Standfield, C. 2020. ‘Gendering the Practice Turn in Diplomacy’. European Journal of International Relations.
Standfield. C. 2020. ‘Caught between Art and Science: the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in United Nations Mediation Narratives’. International Feminist Journal of Politics.
Standfield, C. (2019). ‘Feminist Perspectives on Diplomacy – A Review’. International Feminist Journal of Politics 21(1), 152-154.
