NATO, Gender and the Military

Wright, Katharine A. M.; Hurley, Matthew; Ruiz, Jesus Ignacio Gil

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“…In earlier work my co-authors and I analysed how, due to its unique structures and decisionmaking processes, NATO can be understood as a 'teaching machine'. (Wright et. al, 2019; see also Enloe, 1981).…”

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“…It was an unexpected encounter. I was there along with my co-authors to launch our new book (Wright et al, 2019) and participate in the 43 rd Annual Conference of the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives (NCGP). In the conference programme, what was billed as a 'side-event' discussing 'integrating LGBTQI perspectives in allied and partner armed forces' was scheduled for the upcoming Thursday.…”

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“…Centralising this pre-existing 'values-framework' allowed the participants to establish an (albeit tenuous) 'in' for discussions of LGBTQ rights within a resistant institution. It is a strategy that has been used previously to promoting gender equality (See Hurley, 2017;Wright et al, 2019). 'Diversity as strength' (and strength as operational effectiveness) furthers this association and is evident in campaigns such as #WEARENATO where unity despite difference is promoted (Hedling et al, 2022).…”

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Somewhere over the rainbow (crossing): reflections on LGBTQ allyship at NATO

Hurley

2023

Critical Military Studies

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In June 2019, I found myself at NATO headquarters in Brussels, staring at a poster featuring a rainbow flag superimposed with silhouettes of armed forces personnel. It was an unexpected encounter. I was there along with my co-authors to launch our new book (Wright et al, 2019) and participate in the 43 rd Annual Conference of the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives (NCGP). In the conference programme, what was billed as a 'side-event' discussing 'integrating LGBTQI perspectives in allied and partner armed forces' was scheduled for the upcoming Thursday. I was curious. NATO is dominated by cisgendered, heterosexual, militarised masculine norms (Ibid) and is an alliance made up of thirty member states with differing socio-cultural and military levels of LGBTQ rights. The inclusion of such an event, in such a space, felt a little radical. There were murmurings amongst the delegates.

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Somewhere over the rainbow (crossing): reflections on LGBTQ allyship at NATO

Hurley

2023

Critical Military Studies

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“…87 For example, social media has been used to visually project a select few senior women in NATO, belying the gendered reality of an organisation dominated by men in decisionmaking positions. 88 This self-narrative has also been defined by the distinct masculinist protection logic, with NATO justifying its military interventionism on gendered grounds. 89 NATO's response is in part reflective of the constraints of a multilateral institution built on consensus decision-making, limited by its members' priorities, and sensitive not to implicate themselves as perpetrators.…”

Section: Nato's Self-narrative: a Wps Actor In The Makingmentioning

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“…90 NATO's initial policy position on WPS in 2007 made no mention of sexual violence in conflict, although it was introduced in the resulting military command. 91 BI-Strategic Command 40-1 narrates NATO as a protector of women from CRSGBV, while upholding the alliance's standards in operational conduct on the ground. 92 This narration is carried through in its 2011 revised policy, which describes how the WPS resolutions make provision for responses to CRSGBV, but it does not outline NATO's specific responsibilities.…”

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NATO's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn

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Rosamond²

2021

Rev. Int. Stud.

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Angelina Jolie's high-profile visit to NATO in 2018 signals a move to brand the alliance's strategic narrative within the language of celebrity through engagement with popular culture. The partnership represents a significant change in the alliance's approach to global security. It also builds on a shift in NATO's self-narrative through the advocacy of gender justice related to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Rather than fading into the background, NATO appears to be pursuing the limelight for the purpose of ‘awareness raising’ as a tool to implement the WPS agenda. Drawing upon feminist scholarship on the WPS agenda, NATO, and research on celebrity humanitarianism and politics, we provide a critical study of this change in NATO's strategic narrative, through the analysis of visual and textual material related to Jolie's visit to NATO. Our focus is on the significance of this partnership and its contribution to legitimising the alliance's self-defined ‘military leadership’ in the area of conflict-related sexual violence. While Jolie's visit to NATO opened the alliance to public scrutiny it also symbolised a form of militarism, surrounded by orchestrated visual representations. As such, it only marginally disrupted the militarist logic present in NATO's wider WPS engagement.

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Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Deiana¹

2021

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies

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has marked the development of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda (WPS). The agenda has emerged as the dominant normative framework for the articulation of a gender perspective in the context of crisis management and security, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Essentially the agenda acknowledges that gender matters in conflict and in peace-making and signals commitments to centre the role of women in peace and security. It sets out aspirations and recommendations for mainstreaming gender in all aspects of conflict management, prevention and peacebuilding. These include reform of peacekeeping and other security forces, inclusion of women in all level of decision-making, responses to the diverse impact of conflict on women and men, strategies to address conflict related sexual violence, to name but a few.

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NATO, Gender and the Military

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Somewhere over the rainbow (crossing): reflections on LGBTQ allyship at NATO

Somewhere over the rainbow (crossing): reflections on LGBTQ allyship at NATO

NATO's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn

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