BETTER CITIZENS - HUMANITARIAN
AND GENDER TRAINING, EUTM SOMALIA
Authors: McKeon Garry 
Published: February 2021

This paper is concerned with the practical application of UNSCR 1325 and other related UN Resolutions and associated doctrine regarding gender training. It focuses in particular on training a group of individuals as culturally and educationally diverse as those trained by the EU in the European Union Training Mission (EUTM) Somalia. It serves as an Irish case study on a humanitarian and gender training mission, based on personal experience from the mission. The article considers how to teach an effectively illiterate group of male and female soldiers in gender and humanitarian law, as well as in the implications of the Law on Armed Conflict (LOAC). The article endeavours to give a perspective from a tactical viewpoint on the challenges of delivering a meaningful explanation, the practical application of the efforts of the International community in dealing with the horrors of conflict, the manner in which responsible soldiers and citizens are expected to behave in the resolution of conflict, and the development of a society transitioning from crisis to modernity. In developing a programme for the delivery of lectures, cognisance was given to the very low base the soldiers were starting from and also to determining the aim and scope of the lectures. The measure of their success is how the soldiers reacted to scenario-based exercises, incorporating issues on the application of the LOAC and the aspects of gender they may find in their daily lives as soldiers in the Armed Forces of Somalia. The measure was successfully identified by the EUTM instructors at the end of the training period as a positive reflection of the delivery.

Prispevek obravnava praktično uporabo Resolucije Varnostnega sveta Organizacije združenih narodov 1325 in drugih sorodnih resolucij ter pripadajoče doktrine, povezane z usposabljanjem na področju spola. Še posebej se ukvarja z usposabljanjem kulturno in izobrazbeno tako raznolike skupine posameznikov, kot so bili udeleženci usposabljanja EU na misiji EUTM Somalija. Prispevek je irska študija primera o misiji za usposabljanje s področja humanitarnosti in spola ter temelji na osebnih izkušnjah z misije. Osredotoča se na vprašanje, kako učinkovito izobraziti skupino pripadnikov in pripadnic oboroženih sil o enakosti spolov in humanitarnem pravu ter globljem pomenu prava oboroženih spopadov. Avtor skuša predstaviti taktični vidik izzivov pri podajanju smiselne razlage in praktični uporabi prizadevanj mednarodne skupnosti za spoprijemanje z grozotami spopadov ter način ravnanja odgovornih vojakov in državljanov pri reševanju sporov in razvoj družbe pri prehodu iz krize v sodobno ureditev. Pri oblikovanju programa predavanj je bilo upoštevano nizko osnovno znanje vojakov na usposabljanju, pozornost pa je bila namenjena tudi določitvi ciljev in obsega predavanj. Merilo uspešnosti je bil odziv udeležencev v različnih scenarijih, ki so vključevali vprašanja uporabe prava oboroženih spopadov in vidika enakosti spolov, s katerimi se kot pripadniki somalijskih oboroženih sil srečujejo v vsakodnevnem življenju. Uspešnost usposabljanja je bila po mnenju inštruktorjev EUTM pozitiven odraz predavanj.