Gender, Military Effectiveness, and Organizational Change

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Accomplishments and the Challenges

   • Robert Egnell, Petter Hojem, Hannes Berts

   Pages 1-19

3. Gender, Feminism, and Military Effectiveness

   • Robert Egnell, Petter Hojem, Hannes Berts

   Pages 20-43

4. Changing the Armed Forces

   • Robert Egnell, Petter Hojem, Hannes Berts

   Pages 44-75

5. The Implementation and Impact of a Gender Perspective in Operations

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   Pages 76-107

6. Recruitment, Harassment, and Equal Rights: Human Resource Policies

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   Pages 108-122

7. Conclusion: Improving and Spreading the Implementation

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   Pages 123-144

8. Back Matter

   Pages 145-185

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Through extensive analysis of the Swedish Armed Forces this study explores the possibilities and pitfalls of implementing of a gender perspective in military organizations and operations. It established a number of important lessons for similar attempts in other countries and discusses the continued process of implementation in the Swedish military

• gender
• organization
• organizational change
• organizations

"If military units are to operate effectively in the population-centric operations of the 21st Century, as well as to combat sexual violence in war, the commanders, their staffs and their forces need to be properly prepared to meet the challenges they face, including understanding the gender aspects of operations. This book is therefore a timely and important contribution to that process and I commend it to those whose responsibility it is to train and prepare our soldiers, sailors, airmen/women and marines for operations."

General Sir Richard Shirreff, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DCACEUR).

In this important and engaging book, the authors outline an enlightened narrative about UNSCR 1325 implementation for key stakeholders, including the military, women and civil society, international and government policy makers, and academia. A must read for anyone who works on the women, peace and security agenda.

Dr. Kathleen Kuehnast, Director, Center for Gender and Peacebuilding, USIP

• Security Studies Program in the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, USA

  Robert Egnell

• Swedish National Defence College, Sweden

  Robert Egnell

• Centre for Business and Policy Studies, SNS, Sweden

  Petter Hojem

• Sthlm Policy Group AB, Sweden

  Hannes Berts

Robert Egnell is Visiting Professor and Director of Teaching in the Security Studies Program, Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of Counterinsurgency in crisis: Britain and the challenges of modern warfare (2013), and Complex peace operations and civil-military relations: Winning the peace (2009).

Petter Hojem is a project leader at Centre for Business and Policy Studies (SNS) in Stockholm, Sweden.

Hannes Berts is a founding partner and senior consultant of Sthlm Policy Group. He has extensive experience in policy advice, research and evaluation with a primary focus on international peace and security, international law, humanitarian assistance, human rights and democracy.

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