GENDER PERSPECTIVE IN THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN SECURITY – SAF EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES
GENDER PERSPECTIVE IN THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN SECURITY – SAF EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES

Author(s): Jovanka Šaranović, Anita Pešić
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Security and defense
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: contemporary conflicts; gender equality; scientific paper; professional development
Summary/Abstract: The subject of our research is the concept of gender equality, whose understanding is important for the development of society and organisational systems in which human rights and gender equality are respected, there is tolerance and discrimination is prohibited. With this paper we would like to emphasize the contribution of scientific research work as a problem-based foundation of professional development and training of employees in the security sector for better understanding, acceptance and implementation of the concept of gender equality. We will present the level of gender equality reached in the Western Balkan region by considering situation in the defence systems of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia and the Republic of Serbia, on the basis of current analyses, available programmes and research on views about gender equality problems. We have found out that there are similarities and certain specifics of the programme concepts of professional development and training of employees, as well as the results of scientific research papers, and also the identification of problems and possible solutions by employees in the defence systems. The conclusion of this paper is that scientific research work, as the authentic experience of the defence system of the Republic of Serbia and training of employees based on research practices, greatly contribute to raising the awareness of the defence system personnel about the importance of gender perspective, not as an element that has to be added somewhere, but as a more effective way of thinking and defining all important issues and concepts in the defence systems.

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