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Mainstreaming Gender in Professional Military Education<br>
Classroom Introductions Please introduce yourself by providing:
your name and an easy way of remembering it
what you teach
what you know about gender<br>
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Foundational Directives & Documents UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (2000) with subsequent resolutions (2008-2015)
US National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (2012)
NATO Bi-Strategic Directive 40-1 (2012)
US Department of Defense Guidelines<br>
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Key Terms and Definitions In small groups of 5 or fewer define the and write the definitions of the following terms on the board:
Sex
Gender
Gender perspective
Gender mainstreaming<br>
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www.mil.se/swedint Sex and gender Constant Changes over time Which pertains to sex and which pertains to gender? Socially constructed Biological Changes by country Universal Learned<br>
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ADL Case Study Discussion Food Distribution
Dancing Boys
Village Security
Search Operations<br>
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Gender mainstreaming at the Strategic, Operational and Tactical Levels<br>
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When is gender mainstreaming needed at the strategic level? Example?<br>
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Gender mainstreaming for strategic level activities 1. Strategic military guidance and policy
2. Military operation planning
3. Military planning to enhance conditions of service
4. Force generation
5. Monitoring and reporting
6. Operational advice and support TCC<br>
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Internal or External focus Internal (personnel):
Gender equality
Preventing sexual harassment
Preventing discrimination
Promoting increased recruitment of women in the forces External (operations):
Principles of UNSCR 1325 integrated into planning, implementation and evaluation of operations
Promoting participation of women in international operations<br>
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When is gender mainstreaming needed at the operational level? Example?<br>
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Gender objectives for operational level activities 1. Military protection activities
2. Security support activities
3. Monitoring and verification activities
4. Military liaison activities<br>
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When is gender mainstreaming needed at the tactical level? Examples?<br>
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Gender objectives for tactical level activities 1. Patrol duties
2. Checkpoints, roadblocks, search operations
3. Protection tasks
4. Security support tasks
5. Monitoring and verification tasks
6. Military liaison tasks<br>
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Summary To have a gender perspective is to have the ability to detect if and when men, women, boys and girls are being affected differently by a situation due to their gender.
Everyone’s responsible for gender mainstreaming.
There are different activities and considerations at different levels
DPKO/DFS guideliness: Tool & Checklist<br>
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NATO Gender Checklists Strategic
Operational
Tactical<br>
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Gender perspective at different levels ?Questions?<br>
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Application Working in three small groups apply the appropriate NATO gender checklist to the following scenarios
Haiti Earthquake Relief-Strategic
KFOR Monitoring Teams-Operational
Afghanistan Women’s Patterns of Movement-Tactical<br>
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Final Assessment Take what you have learned during the last four hours and modify one of your lesson plans in a manner that includes a gender perspective as a cross cutting theme.
Return in 1 hour and explain to the group what lesson you plan to modify and how you will modify it.<br>
