ADVANCING WOMEN IN PEACE AND SECURITY
FROM PROMISE TO ACTION
Abstract
Review Paper
DOI: 10.37458/ssj.2.1.2
Overcoming gender bias has been increasingly important to counter ongoing threats to national and international security. The article centres on the institutional framework that exists for the participation of women in peace and security at the United Nations and NATO levels. It expands to the success story of women’s inclusiveness in the Jordanian armed forces, as well as to the challenges of health security and concludes with a set of concrete policy recommendations.
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