NATO – International Hub for Promoting Gender Perspective Within the Armed Forces
NATO – International Hub for Promoting Gender Perspective Within the Armed Forces

Summary/Abstract: The reality of contemporary conflicts justifies and implies, within the current military operations, the exploitation of a large array of resources and qualifications that are necessary during the process of assuring international peace and security on the long term. Even since 1961, NATO has become aware of the fact that gender perspective integration at the level of security providers represented a guarantee for the organisational resilience facing numerous international security challenges, as well as a measure of performance within the political and military domain by fully using the human resource. Once with the UNSCR 1325 “Women, Peace and Security” endorsement, in 2000, NATO successively adopted policies, strategies, and action plans designed to promote and implement gender equality within the Alliance structures and also at the level of the member or partner states Armed Forces. In addition, together with its strategic partners, NATO has developed mechanisms meant to apply gender diversity in a comprehensive manner, all with the purpose of raising operational efficiency and enhancing military capabilities. Counting on the importance of collaboration between the evolutions in the weapon industry,military technologies and inclusive capitalisation of the human resource, NATO has succeeded in becoming a modern Alliance, a genuine international hub of gender perspective integration at the level of security and defence.

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