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Human Interaction and Soft Skills in Peacekeeping: Inside the Mandate book cover

1st Edition

Human Interaction and Soft Skills in Peacekeeping Inside the Mandate

By Anne Holohan, Kamila Trochowska-Sviderok Copyright 2027
264 Pages
by Routledge

This book challenges the dominant top-down view of peacekeeping by focusing on the individual peacekeeper’s embodied, everyday experiences and interactions in the field, and the soft skills needed to navigate those interactions. Macro-level goals (such as security and stability) often hinge on micro-level dynamics: how peacekeepers perceive, interpret, and navigate interpersonal and... Read more

Introduction  Chapter 1: The Military Peacekeeper and Organizational Diversity  Chapter 2: The Police Peacekeeper and Organizational Diversity  Chapter 3: The Military and Local Cultural Awareness   Chapter 4: Police Peacekeepers and Local Cultural Awareness  Chapter 5: Gender Awareness and Agency in the Military and in the Mission  Chapter 6: Gender Awareness and Agency in the Police and in the Mission  Chapter 7: The Embodied Sensory Experience of the Military and Police Peacekeeper  Chapter 8: Stress, Danger, and Meaning in the Military  Chapter 9: Stress, Danger, and Meaning in the Police

Biography

Anne Holohan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She is author of Networks of Democracy: Lessons from Kosovo for Afghanistan, Iraq and Beyond (2005) and Community, Competition and Citizen Science: Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World (2013).

Kamila Trochowska-Sviderok is Associate Professor, War Studies University, Poland. Since 2015, she has delivered soft-skills training for international peacekeeping personnel within NATO and EU frameworks.

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