Teaching Gender in the Military: a Handbook

The Teaching Gender in the Military Handbook documents the knowledge outcomes of a series of four workshops organised by the Security Sector Reform and Education Development Working Groups of the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes (PfPC). The handbook aims to (a) strengthen the ability of faculty to integrate gender in professional military education and (b) improve the capacity of gender experts to deliver educational content. In other words, it aims to cover both ‘what to teach’ and ‘how to teach’ when it comes to gender and the military.The Handbook was created in response to a call to integrate gender in military education and training articulated in the UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security; the NATO frameworks to implement these resolutions; and national policies and initiatives in the NATO-PfP area.

The handbook’s 19 authors comprise both military and civilian subject matter experts in gender and military education from 13 NATO and PfP Member Nations.  It has ten peer-reviewed chapters divided into two sections: