Beschreibung:
Offers an understanding of the roles that culture plays in peacekeeping's success or failure. This work shows that cultural considerations are key elements at all levels of peacekeeping operations. It demonstrates how questions of power, identity, and political perception emerge from the cultural context of peacekeeping.
1 Introduction 2 A Brief and Selective History of Peacekeeping 3 Culture and Peacekeeping: A Conceptual Framework 4 "Turn Left at the Mosque": Anthropological Fieldwork and Peacekeeping 5 Symbolic Construction of Community and Cooperation 6 "You Will Have to Kill Me to Get By": Individual Action and Peacekeeping 7 Organizational Cultures and Peacekeeping 8 Peacekeeping Under Fire 9 Intervention as Cultural Practice