What would economic recovery after war look like if guided by the feminist value of care for each other and nature?

Along with all its horrors and devastation, sometimes war generates opportunities to rebuild, recover and reconstruct society. The period after a peace agreement, whilst no tabula rasa, can, to some degree, offer a window of opportunity to structure economies and societies differently, to respond to the inequalities and injustices that led to war and to foster the conditions of sustainable peace. Drawing on the work of feminist political economists and ecologists from the Global South and North, and on insights of Indigenous Peoples and other rural communities who have long lived in sustainable relationships with nature, this paper outlines what economic recovery after war might look like if based upon feminist values. Could the values of care and reciprocity, regeneration and respect – in our relations to each other and to nature – lead to a more just, sustainable peace?