GENDER SPECIFIC MANAGING AND COMMANDING CONTINGENTS IN UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
GENDER SPECIFIC MANAGING AND COMMANDING CONTINGENTS IN UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

Author(s): Milivoje Pajović
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: peacekeeping operations; gender perspective; operational necessities; civil protection
Summary/Abstract: UN peacekeeping operations represent the biggest effort that a human civilization can undertake in order to prevent, stabilize and put an end to an armed conflict in any part of the world. At the same time, UN efforts represent the best possible contribution to the peace and prosperity of the human kind. As a member of the United Nations, the Republic of Serbia has a prominent role in the aforementioned contribution and throughout the world it deploys its armed forces composed of military and civilian personnel, men and women, operational and support forces.Since 2014, for the first time, Serbia and Serbian Armed Forces have started independently deploying military contingent in MINUSCA peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic. The very fact that the contingent composition is mixed calls for discussion on specificities of managing and commanding such personnel. Contingent is composed of 2/3 men and 1/3 women. In addition, half of the total number is military, and the other half is civilian personnel. In addition, part of personnel deployed in Africa already has rich multinational experience, and one part of personnel are people who left their home country for the first time. In such circumstances, aspects of equal treatment of every contingent member are very much in focus, in all significant areas regarding the rights and obligations in mission, for the sake of fulfilling basic and other requirements, with reliable force protection, and thus, including the topic of gender mainstreaming as a significant element of mixed teams’ cohesion.

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