Abstract
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as security organisation, plays a key role in mainstreaming gender policies not only because the organisation itself is characterised by hegemonic masculinity and operates in a hyper-masculine environment but also because international organisations are central actors in norm creation and implementation. Wüstemann gives an overview of NATO’s previous activities in implementing gender norms at both institutional and policy levels and within NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan to show how NATO is interpreting gender mainstreaming on its different levels.
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Here, gender mainstreaming is closely linked to operational effectiveness and therefore “recognises the role of gender integration in international peace and security, as well as the understanding that policies and programs may have different impacts on men and women” (de Jonge Oudraat 2013: 613).
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ISAF’s command structure consisted of a headquarters (ISAF HQ), two subordinate headquarters, the NATO Training Mission (NTM-A) and the ISAF Joint Command (IJC) HQ. The six regional commands (RCs) were under the command of the IJC (Lackenbauer and Langlais 2013: 34f.).
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Wüstemann, N. (2020). Women, Peace and Security Organisations: Gender Norms and NATO. In: Scheuermann, M., Zürn, A. (eds) Gender Roles in Peace and Security. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21890-4_9
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