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For a successful mission, armed forces need veritable inclusion 
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Gender issues affect all core tasks of NATO as a security alliance 
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Ministry and Army could better embed the WPS agenda 
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Gender-sensitive assistance is logical and fair 
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Promoting participation needs political and financial commitment instead of stereotypes 
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Women, Peace & Security: The Long Road to Gender Justice

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched its war of aggression against Ukraine. Although preparations for this edition of “Ethics and Armed Forces” had already reached an advanced stage, the question arose of whether the “war in Europe” might not be a more pressing topic. An understandable, but also treacherous urge, given that gender issues often take second place to supposedly “hard” security questions.

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Photo: picture alliance / ZUMAPRESS.com | Cheryl Hatch


Particularly in difficult geopolitical times, the WPS agenda must be consistently developed
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Systematic sexual assaults corrode social structures
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Forgotten: Children Born of War

Sabine Lee & Heide Glaesmer

Consistent law enforcement requires more than progressive legal standards
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Children fathered by foreign soldiers often remain in the shadows for decades 
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Rash anti-terror measures prove ineffective and place a strain on foreign relations.   
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There are red lines which a state governed by the rule of law must not cross.
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More Gender Perspective, Please!

"Freedom and Security Are Not Contradictory"

Rear Admiral Carsten Stawitzki

Soldiers act in the context of the networked approach and serve a peace logic. Not least, they need an ethical foundation on which their profession is built.
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State countermeasures are only effective if they are embedded in internationally coordinated strategies.
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