Regional Network of Trainers Brings Gender Equality to the Western Balkan Armed Forces

Attracting and retaining women in the Armed Forces have traditionally been major challenges. The Western Balkans are no different. Women only make up between 5.5 and 9 percent of the armed forces and ...

From one woman police officer to many: Notes from Sivas

by Verica Golijanin, an inspector from the Federal Police Administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Chair Elect of the Women Police Officers Network in South East Europe.   I was ...

SEESAC Publishes a Practical Guide on Addressing Arms Diversions

SEESAC’s tailor-made SALW Knowledge Base has been recently expanded to include a publication focusing on strengthening post-export controls. The report ‘’Addressing the Unauthorized Re-export or ...

Regional Steering Group on SALW holds annual meeting

SARAJEVO - Regional Steering Group (RSG) for Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) held its annual meeting on 27 February 2015, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Hosted by the Regional ...

NCGM Commander Jan Dunmurray on relevance of gender training for the military and cooperation with SEESAC

Commander Jan Dunmurray from the Nordic Centre for Gender in Military Operations (NCGM) talks to Odbrana (Defence), a weekly magazine of the Serbian Armed Forces, about gender perspective in military ...

Commanding Officer Seminar on Gender in Military Operations

The Commanding Officer Seminar on Gender in Military Operations was organized for officers as part of the General Staff Course of the National Defense School of the Military Academy of Republic of ...

Closing Ceremony of Gender Training of Trainers Course

BELGRADE - Second generation of  gender trainers from Ministries of Defence (MoDs) and Armed Forces (AF) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Republic ...

Second Gender Training of Trainers Course for the Armed Forces Begins

Within the scope of SEESAC’s Gender Equality in the Military project, which aims to support integration of women in the armed forces in the Western Balkans, a two-week long regional Gender Training of ...

Gender Trainers Delivered Their First Gender Equality Seminar

On 18 December 2014, four certified gender trainers from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Republic of Serbia and Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) delivered the first seminar on gender equality to their ...

SEESAC Publishes the 6th Regional Report on Arms Exports

The Sixth Regional Report on Arms Exports containing information on the arms exports conducted by Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of ...