This course foregrounds gender – as noun, verb, and structure – to challenge preconceived notions regarding the interrelation of various practices of violence and manifestations of conflict. It moves away from the concept of “security” to highlight assemblages of threats and vulnerabilities that connect and challenge traditional international relations concepts of both scale (e.g. local, national, international etc.) as well as the legitimately “political”. Taking gender seriously allows us to trace the “systems level” war into the everyday, and to follow every practices of violence into the global. The course encourages students to consider not only the ways different practices of violence are masculinised/feminising, but also how these gendering violences are implicated in social power relations, and the production of order/normality. Particular thematic emphasis is placed on the questions of what constitute violence, and how this key conceptualization relates to our ways of analysing, interpreting, and making sense, both academically and experientially, of the phenomenon.