Restoring Global Justice: Articulating Feminist Foreign Policy for a Peaceful World Order

The commitment to an order where nations, governments, societies and families adopt action which envisions a world where women’s rights are equally important to those of men has gained momentum. Having been marginalised in the national and international policies, it has now come to be understood that keeping Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) at bay means a deliberate attempt to inflict injustice to half of the world’s population. We need to make efforts to restore global justice and this can only be achieved by integrating FFP in both theory and practise, which will ensure the exemplification of ‘justice as fairness’. This paper would illuminate the “Law of Peoples” authored by John Rawls to explore the principles of justice and peaceful coexistence for well-ordered societies, and seek to apply it to FFP. It would establish that FFP is an important attribute of a peaceful world order, sans which we are inhabiting a defective and an unjust global system. It would argue that the absence of gender analysis and absence of sensitivity in global politics are key challenges for peace. In the prevailing geopolitical uncertainties and flux, masculine power structures and hegemonic aspirations, this paper would demonstrate that incorporation of FFP by nations would transform the global political landscape that addresses moral imperatives and prioritises stability. In essence, this paper would play a pivotal role in shaping the discourse of justice within the fractured realities of contemporary International Relations. It would conclude that implementation of FFP in the world order would render political philosophy practical, by: (a) concretely establishing its potential of becoming a transformative force for the global gender equity, equality and integration in global governance and conflict resolution, and (b) paving the way for a peaceful international community.