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Finnish Conscript Corporal Convicted of Harassing Female Recruits

A Finnish court has convicted a male conscript corporal of a service offence after he repeatedly entered female recruits’ quarters at the Pori Brigade in Niinisalo without any official reason. The court found that his purpose was to sexually harass the women, particularly one recruit, whom he also subjected to unwanted advances and inappropriate treatment. […]
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Finnish Female Describes Bullying and Harassment During Military Service

In a recent Iltalehti piece a Finnish woman named Saija says that fellow conscripts and corporals repeatedly bullied and harassed her while she was completing voluntary military service. The harassment reportedly consisted primarily of degrading and inappropriate language rather than physical violence. During one particularly distressing incident at a field camp, she was surrounded by […]
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New Thesis: Organising the Armed Forces: Ethically Justified Armed Forces

Tuukka Korpinen’s thesis examines how armed forces can be ethically organized. Rather than treating military recruitment as a purely practical question, the paper analyzes conscription, professional armies, private military organizations, and hybrid models through the lenses of just war theory, distributive justice, soldiers’ consent, and James Pattison’s cumulative moderate instrumentalism. Korpinen argues that the ethical […]
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40% of Women Face Harassment in Finnish Military Service

Around 40 percent of women completing voluntary military service in Finland report inappropriate treatment during service, according to end-of-service questionnaires obtained by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. The most common problems are bullying and sexual harassment; although sexual harassment has fallen from more than half of women ten years ago to under one quarter now, women […]
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