Gaming for Peace: Gender Awareness Training and the Polish Military
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Holohan, Anne; Pyz, Justyna, Trochowska, Kamila, Gaming for Peace: Gender Awareness Training and the Polish Military, Security and Defence Quarterly, 4, 21, 2018, 41 - 57Download Item:
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Despite regulatory and legal changes, women are persistently underrepresented in
military organisations on peacekeeping missions. This article argues that part of the
reason for this can be found in persistent stereotypical ideas about gender roles, and looks
at the attitudes and experience of Polish military personnel who have been deployed on
peacekeeping missions as evidence of this. However, witnessing other militaries stance on
gender, where such stereotypes are still there, but not as entrenched, can cause personnel
to contextualise if not question their own organisation’s stance on gender. Sixteen Polish
military peacekeepers were interviewed in-depth about their experiences on peacekeeping
missions as part of a European H2020 project, Gaming for Peace (GAP). The interviews were used to build scenarios for a digital role-playing game to develop soft skills among peacekeeping personnel, and these soft skills included gender awareness. Th is article analyses the interviews to explore the experience of gender for both men and women in the
Polish military, and shows that there is an urgent need for the type of training in gender
awareness that is part of GAP.
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