Veronica Lion

Veronica Lion is a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Global Governance at the University of Graz. Her research focuses on women-led movements in times of conflict and crisis, and on how they generate new political knowledge under extreme pressure. Her project WOMACT — Women’s Movements as Agents of Crisis Transformation examines how such movements in Israel/Palestine and Ukraine simultaneously cope with war, democratic regression and social division, what knowledge they develop in the process, and how they use it to resist, reorganise themselves and develop alternative visions of peace and democracy. Based on comparative ethnographic fieldwork, the project develops the concept of crisis epistemologies and asks what we learn about feminist agency, solidarity and political imagination when we take women-led movements seriously as agents of knowledge.

Lion completed her PhD in 2025 at Bar-Ilan University with a dissertation on women-led peace movements in Israel. Her research lies at the intersection of gender studies, social movements, and peace and conflict studies. Most recently, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Sophie Davis Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University. She is a member of the ‘Women and Feminism in Wartime’ research group at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem and co-founder of the Inter-University Peace and Gender Research Group in Israel. Her work has appeared in journals including Mobilization and Social Politics.