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The article focuses on how feminist activist groups, specifically the Burundian women's peace organization Mouvement Inamahoro, responded to the misinformation and "fake news" regarding COVID-19 during a public health crisis. It highlights the gendered burden of disinformation on women, particularly in refugee communities, as they became key figures in combating false narratives.

Back-channel negotiations are commonplace in peace negotiations and can serve as crucial mechanisms for reaching agreements. While there has been a moderate increase in scholarship examining back-channel negotiations in the last two decades, none has explored the gendered nature of these spaces. This article analyzes how and why back-channel negotiations are highly gendered processes and why their gendered nature matters for sustainable peace. We begin with a review of the current literature on back-channel negotiations and discuss how and why they are critical mechanisms in peace negotiation and agreement processes. Next, we show how women's inclusion in peace negotiations and agreement practices matters for sustainable peace. Thereafter, we discuss how secret negotiation spaces are infused with gendered power and masculine logics of war and peace. We argue that three key features of back-channel negotiations—secrecy, uncertainty, and limited trust—come together to create an echo chamber of hypermasculinity ideas, values, styles, and norms that prevent women from achieving descriptive and substantive representation inside fundamental secret negotiation spaces. This article adds to the developing literature on back-channel negotiations and helps us better understand how and why women and their interests are regularly excluded from peace processes despite the global prominence of the United Nations' Women, Peace, and Security agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors examined the associations of 3 types of psychological coping (task-based, emotion-based, avoidance), 2 types of religious coping (positive, negative), and their interactions with grief of 57 mothers bereaved by the sudden death of a child. Results indicated that mothers who use emotion-based coping report significantly higher levels of grief, whereas mothers who use avoidance coping report lower levels of grief. The interaction of task coping and positive religious coping was also associated with lower self-reported grief. The findings support the differential utility of various coping styles on mothers' grief reactions to the sudden death of a child.

The 2005 UN Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons articulate the right of refugees and displaced persons to repossess property lost as the result of armed conflict. These principles are significant because they reverse the international community’s explicit approval of permanent war-time deprivation of property during the first half of the twentieth century. They consolidate the norm of post-conflict restitution of property and they also provide a set of standards for property repossession regimes to be applied worldwide. However, examined in the context of two of the most extensive attempts to restore property to refugees and displaced persons—Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, post-1995—the Principles do not adequately address six key issues. These are: the lack of desire of many of those dispossessed to return to their pre-war place of residence, the displacement of secondary occupants, where responsibility lies for property during its occupation, temporal limitations on repossession, differing conceptions of property, and co-ordinating regional restitution regimes. This article proposes further consideration of these six issues and their refinement in the Principles in order to enhance the Principles’ effectiveness and applicability. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]