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New Directions in Women, Peace and Security. Bristol University Press. ISBN 978-1-5292-0777-4. Davies, S.E.; True, J. (2019). The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security. Oxford Handbooks Series. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-063827-6. Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military: An International Comparison. Georgetown ...
In August 2014, Nesmith became the first woman to command a British Army brigade when she was chosen to command the 1st Signal Brigade. [5] She was promoted to brigadier on 30 June 2015. [ 11 ] Her role was formally announced by Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fallon in September 2015, almost a year after she started in the role.
On 15 January 1962, around 1,800 peace activists organized by Ruth Chenven and members of Women Strike for Peace boarded a train at Pennsylvania Station in New York City. [12] [29] The activists, mainly from Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York were traveling to Washington, D.C. to meet up with activists from twenty other states and protest nuclear testing and demand universal disarmament.
The CPU offers a range of training courses. These include the eight-week Close Protection Course that qualifies service police men and women to be CP operatives, a further eight-week pre-deployment training course carried out before teams deploy overseas, and specialist driving courses for locally employed civilian drivers. [3]
In this year, the Women's Royal Army Corps was created to replace the WAAC, and in 1950 the ranks were normalised with the ranks of men serving in the British Army. The 1991 Gulf War marked the first deployment of British women in combat operations since 1945. Women were engaged in a broad range of support operations up to 8 km from the front line.
Military Provost Staff Corps – similarly named specilaist detention and custody unit, the Army's equivalent of a prison service. Ministry of Defence Guard Service – unarmed civilian organisation providing security at British defence sites; Northern Ireland Security Guard Service - armed civilian organisation fulfilling similar functions to MPGS
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Global organisation 'Women in International Security' focused on extending the role of women in security. Building on established themes within security studies such as war, conflict, organised violence and peace, FSS examines how social constructions of gender has an impact on how these themes operate institutionally and structurally. [3]