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This book provides two separate but closely linked narratives: one of the organizational change process through the implementation of gender perspective in the Swedish Armed Forces, and the other of the Swedish military’s implementation of these perspectives in the field of operations. In order to tell these stories in a sufficiently analytical manner, a broad theoretical framework is necessary — one that addresses questions of military operational effectiveness, gendered perspectives, and women’s rights, as well as organizational change processes. Let us nevertheless first go back to UNSCR 1325 for the basics.
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This is a perspective developed by Louise Olsson and Johan Tejpar (eds), Operational Effectiveness and UN Resolution 1325 — Practices and Lessons from Afghanistan (Stockholm: Swedish Defence Research Agency, 2009), 20–22.
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Egnell, R., Hojem, P., Berts, H. (2014). Gender, Feminism, and Military Effectiveness. In: Gender, Military Effectiveness, and Organizational Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137385055_2
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