Academic Works
Grounded in both research and practice, my academic publications examine how feminist peacebuilding and global policy frameworks—particularly Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and Youth, Peace and Security (YPS)—are interpreted, contested, and translated across different contexts.
À l’intersection de la recherche et de la pratique, mes publications académiques analysent la manière dont la consolidation de la paix féministe et les cadres politiques globaux — en particulier Femmes, Paix et Sécurité (FPS) et Jeunesse, Paix et Sécurité (JPS) — sont interprétés, contestés et adaptés à différents contextes.
Books
These volumes bridge scholarly research and practitioner experience to advance more grounded and actionable approaches to peace and security.
Ces ouvrages font dialoguer la recherche académique et l’expérience des praticien(ne)s afin de proposer des approches de la paix et de la sécurité plus ancrées et opérationnelles.
Women, Peace and Security in Canada and the United States: A Fragmented Peace
Edited by Katrina Leclerc, Nisha Singh, and Shirley Graham
A Fragmented Peace brings together scholars and practitioners from the Women, Peace and Security Network-Canada (WPSN-C) and the U.S. Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace and Security (CSWG WPS) to examine how the WPS agenda is contested and reshaped in polarized North American contexts. Through cross-border, interdisciplinary perspectives, it highlights the tensions between State frameworks, civil society action, and evolving security challenges.
Imprint and identifiers:
Routledge (2026)
Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics
Suggested citation: Leclerc, K., Singh, N., & Graham, S. (Eds.). (forthcoming, 2026). Women, Peace and Security in Canada and the United States: A Fragmented Peace. Routledge.
Youth Leading Change:
Emerging Sites of Knowledge in Peace and Conflict
Edited by Katrina Leclerc, Erika Isabel Bulan Yague, and Helen Berents
A youth-authored, scholar-practitioner volume in Palgrave’s Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies series. This book centres young peacebuilders as knowledge producers, bridging practice and research across regions to reshape debates on peace and security.
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About the book
Marking a decade of the UN’s Youth, Peace and Security agenda, Youth Leading Change brings together youth-authored chapters paired with reflections from established scholar allies. The volume foregrounds lived expertise, interrogates the limits of state-centric security thinking, and offers grounded insights from Latin America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. It is written for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers seeking practical, context-aware approaches to peace and security.
What you’ll find inside:
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Youth-led analysis that treats practitioners as legitimate knowledge producers;
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Regionally grounded case studies and clear implications for policy and practice; and
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Intergenerational dialogues that connect emerging work with established scholarship.
Imprint and identifiers:
Palgrave Macmillan (2025)
eBook ISBN 978-3-031-95862-5
Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
Suggested citation: Leclerc, K., Yague, E. I. B., & Berents, H. (Eds.). (2025). Youth Leading Change: Emerging Sites of Knowledge in Peace and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal Articles
These academic articles examine peace and security through feminist and critical approaches, linking scholarly analysis with policy and field-based realities.
Ces articles examinent la paix et la sécurité à partir d’approches féministes et critiques, en articulant recherche académique, politiques publiques et pratiques de terrain.
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Leclerc, K. (2026). Building relational power: queer youth, partnerships and the YPS agenda. Journal of Gender Studies, 1–13. DOI:10.1080/09589236.2026.2647416
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Leclerc, K. (2025). Bridging the Generational Divide: Youth Inclusion in Canada’s Women, Peace and Security Commitments. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 1–24. DOI:10.1080/11926422.2025.2603712
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Leclerc, K. (2025). Localising Women, Peace, and Security: Community Agency and Ownership Beyond National Policies. Development in Practice, 1–11. DOI:10.1080/09614524.2025.2565609
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Leclerc, K. (2025). Feminist Government but No Feminist Foreign Policy: The Curious Case of Canada. Politics & Gender, 1–6. DOI:10.1017/S1743923X25100196
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Leclerc, K., & Pourmalek, P. (2024). Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises. International Studies Review, 26(4), DOI:10.1093/isr/viae041.3
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Leclerc, K., Stoumen, N., Despain, A., & Zabihi, S. (2023). Slipping Through the Cracks: Young Women’s Exclusion from Peace and Security Processes. Al-Raida, 47(1), 3-30.
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Leclerc, K., & Wong, S. (2021). North America needs Youth, Peace and Security: young people shifting tides for positive peace. Potentia: Journal of International and Public Affairs. Centre for International Policy Studies: University of Ottawa. DOI: 10.18192/potentia.v12i0.5885
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Leclerc, K., & Rouhshahbaz, S. (2021). Young Peacebuilders Challenge Traditional Knowledge Creation. Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis, 6, 16-40. ISSN: 2631-746X (Print)
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Leclerc, K. (2021). Gender Perspectives in Contemporary Peacebuilding: Collaborative Approaches to Conflict Responses. Global Affairs Review, 2(1), 1-19. DOI:10.51330/gar.0020213
Book Chapters
These academic articles examine peace and security through feminist and critical approaches, linking scholarly analysis with policy and field-based realities.
Ces articles examinent la paix et la sécurité à partir d’approches féministes et critiques, en articulant recherche académique, politiques publiques et pratiques de terrain.
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Leclerc, K., Graham, S. & Singh, N. Across a Shared Border: Feminist Solidarity and the State of WPS in Canada and the United States. In K. Leclerc, N. Singh, & S. Graham (Eds.), Women Peace and Security in Canada and the United States: A Fragmented Peace. [Routledge].
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Leclerc, K., Bohémier, A. & Farion, S. Gender Essentialism in WPS: The Political Erasure of Trans Women in North American Security Discourse. In K. Leclerc, N. Singh, & S. Graham (Eds.), Women Peace and Security in Canada and the United States: A Fragmented Peace. [Routledge].
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Leclerc, K. & Wong, S. Youth as Catalysts for De-polarisation: Leveraging the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda in North America. In K. Leclerc, N. Singh, & S. Graham (Eds.), Women Peace and Security in Canada and the United States: A Fragmented Peace. [Routledge].
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Woroniuk, B. & Leclerc, K. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Canada and the WPS Agenda. In K. Leclerc, N. Singh, & S. Graham (Eds.), Women Peace and Security in Canada and the United States: A Fragmented Peace. [Routledge].
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Leclerc, K., Yague, E. I. B., & Berents, H. (2025). Young People as Movers and Shakers of Peace and Security. In K. Leclerc, E. I. B. Yague, & H. Berents (Eds.), Youth Leading Change: Emerging Sites of Knowledge in Peace and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-95862-5_1
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Mboumien, S. M., & Leclerc, K. (2025). Local Voices, Global Impact: Youth, Peace and Security Discourse Analysis in Northwestern Cameroon. In K. Leclerc, E. I. B. Yague, & H. Berents (Eds.), Youth Leading Change: Emerging Sites of Knowledge in Peace and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-95862-5_4
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Leclerc, K., & Rouhshahbaz, S. (2025). Young Peacebuilders as Architects of Knowledge: Challenging Traditional Paradigms (Ed.), Overcoming Violence in Transdisciplinary Perspective: A Praxis Anthology of Peace (p. 149-172). Frontpage Publications.
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Leclerc, K. (2021). Instrumentalizing the Youth, Peace and Security agenda for meaningful impact and growth (Ed.), Youth, peacebuilding, and sustainability: Connecting Theory to Practice (p. 19-32). Manila: Seeds for Mindanao’s Advocacy and Youth Leadership.
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Leclerc, K. (2021). More Than tokens: Canadian Women in Decision-making Processes in the Post-1995 Beijing Platform for Action Era (Ed.), The Journey to Gender Equality: Mapping the Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Plan for Action (p. 80-89). San José: University for Peace.