Gender diversity management in NATO for sustainable security and peace

• Autorzy: Trochowska-Sviderok Kamila , Masakowski Yvonne Rose , McFate Montgomery , Holohan Anne

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.35467/sdq/183658

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The article focuses on the need for a paradigm shift in diversity management for sustainable peace and security. We discuss the bidirectional influence of security and defence organisations and society; the intersectionality of issues related to social justice, health, race, and ethnicity; sexual abuse and exploitation; and cultural factors that influence the functioning of LGBTQ+ personnel and the gender/technology nexus in the context of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). During the application of the Sustainable Security Paradigm to gender diversity management, we found that ecofeminism and the ideas of post-colonial theory should inform the transformational shift of contemporary security and defence organisational cultures. This approach was used by the multinational NATO Science & Technology Organization Exploratory Team ET-197 Gender, Peace and Sustainable Security (2022-23) and its successor, the NATO HFM-368 Research Task Group (2023-26). Our research efforts were triangulated by an analysis of doctrinal textual, audiovisual and art sources that relate to gender diversity and its management. Given the complexity of future warfare, there is a strategic imperative to develop an inclusive defence strategy that reconfigures the traditional white male-focused military paradigm. It is evident that the root cause of gender inequality cannot be solved solely by doctrine and training solutions—rather a transformational organisational culture shift is pivotal and critical to the future global security. This is the first article that addresses the issues of gender diversity management for sustainable security and peace in an interdisciplinary and holistic manner. Our approach is relevant to any organisation with internal gender and intersectional diversity and systemic discrimination.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

social justice; NATO; organisational effectiveness; sustainable security; gender diversity management

• Wydawca: Akademia Sztuki Wojennej
• Czasopismo: Security and Defence Quarterly
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: Vol. 45, No. 1
• Strony: 18--32
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 68 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Trochowska-Sviderok Kamila

• National Security Department, War Studies University, Al. Gen. Chruściela “Montera” 103, 00-910 Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2730-5536

autor

Masakowski Yvonne Rose

• Innovation Hub, NATO ACT, 4111 Monarch Way, suite 412 Norfolk, VA-23508 United States

autor

McFate Montgomery

• Center for Leadership and Ethics, Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841-1207 United States

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2598-2552

autor

Holohan Anne

• Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, 2 College Green Dublin D02 VR66 Ireland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4436-9099

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