Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda

IF 1.9 2区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Cooperation and Conflict Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI:10.1177/00108367221084561

Kath Wright

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Abstract

Engagement with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda by military actors has caused concern among some of its civil society advocates. For example, NATO has adopted the WPS agenda as an increasingly visible part of its self-narrative. Yet what had distinguished NATO’s engagement with WPS from many other actors is that it came without civil society involvement. The establishment of a Civil Society Advisory Panel (CSAP) on WPS in 2014 is therefore highly significant for both NATO and the WPS agenda. Despite this, the efficacy of such consultation is not clear-cut nor its potential to mitigate militarised understandings of WPS and support transformative engagement with the agenda, particularly given the wariness of some civil society to engage with NATO. Drawing on interviews with civil society, this article interrogates their perceptions of NATO in order to understand the potential of such engagements to support transformative understandings of WPS and more broadly the efficacy of civil society engagement with military institutions. In so doing, it examines how such consultation adds to our understanding of NATO as an institution of international hegemonic masculinity.

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挑战民间社会对北约的看法:参与妇女、和平与安全议程

军事行为体参与妇女、和平与安全(WPS)议程引起了一些民间社会倡导者的关注。例如，北约已将WPS议程作为其自我叙述的一个日益明显的部分。然而，北约与WPS的接触不同于许多其他参与者的地方在于，它没有民间社会的参与。因此，2014年建立WPS民间社会咨询小组(CSAP)对北约和WPS议程都具有重要意义。尽管如此，这种磋商的效力尚不明确，也不清楚它是否有可能减轻对WPS的军事化理解，并支持对议程的变革参与，特别是考虑到一些民间社会对与北约接触持谨慎态度。通过对民间社会的采访，本文询问了他们对北约的看法，以了解这种接触的潜力，以支持对WPS的变革性理解，并更广泛地了解民间社会与军事机构接触的有效性。在此过程中，它考察了这种磋商如何增加了我们对北约作为一个国际霸权男子气概机构的理解。

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