TEACHING GENDER IN THE MILITARY A Handbook
TEACHING GENDER IN THE MILITARY A Handbook

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Politics, Gender Studies, Sociology, Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: The South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC)
Keywords: gender; gender and defence transformation; NATO; Partnership for Peace
Summary/Abstract: The journey that led to the development of this handbook began in 2009 when the Slovenian defence minister highlighted the need to better integrate gender into NATO and the Partnership for Peace’s (PfP) work on security during her plenary speech at the annual conference of the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes (PfPC) in Munich. In 2010, we in the PfPC Working Group on Security Sector Reform (SSR WG) took this as our cue to develop programming to promote human security and gender perspectives within the Consortium’s work. In 2011 the SSR WG held a seminar hosted by the Swedish National Defence College (now renamed as the Swedish Defence University) in Stockholm, Sweden. The seminar was so productive and well-received that the idea was sparked to build and maintain a network to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information, and the development of joint initiatives in the field of gender and defence transformation. The PfPC is uniquely equipped to engage in this endeavour as it has expertise in professional military education through its highly successful Education Development Working Group (EDWG) as well as through its SSR WG led by DCAF’s gender and security programme, bringing together experts on gender and security from across the member nations of NATO and Partner countries.

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