To commemorate the 20th anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies and US Southern Command published an edited collection of essays, Twenty Years, Twenty Stories: Women, Peace, and Security in the Western Hemisphere, that reflect the inclusion of women across mission areas including cyber, peacekeeping, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. This book elevates the voices of talented women and men working in defense and security across the Western Hemisphere and highlights Perry Center alumni.
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The permanent evolution of the relationship between states and the complexity of intra-state conflicts, challenges to innovate in security and defense policies from the position of international organizations, political will of member countries, in addition to the incorporation of other actors for cooperation and institutionalization of solutions to instability. Under this condition, the role of women is paramount, since from the classic concepts of specific functions and perfect society to their victimization in the latest humanitarian tragedies, their role should be more strongly inscribed in the construction of society through certain elements: their protagonism, product of effective public policies of national, regional and global scope, translated into robust and comprehensive institutions.
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Throughout the last decades, the armies of the European countries have evolved in a non-concerted but convergent way, developing common characteristics among which the growing integration of women, both in the troop class and in the officer ranks, stands out. This work makes a comparative exercise of the different national cases, establishing as basic elements of analysis the antecedents of the presence of women in the Army, the normative evolution that has protected and governed their incorporation to the ranks, their specific quantitative and qualitative dimensions in the armies, the diverse modalities of access to the academies, the possible limitations in the professional career, and the level of evolution of certain social policies that favor the professional development and the family norms.
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