Peacekeeping Experiences as Triggers of Introspection in the Ghanaian Military Barracks
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Peacekeeping Experiences as Triggers of Introspection in the Ghanaian Military Barracks. / Agyekum, Humphrey Asamoah.
I: Africa Spectrum, Bind 55, Nr. 1, 14.05.2020, s. 50-72.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Peacekeeping Experiences as Triggers of Introspection in the Ghanaian Military Barracks
AU - Agyekum, Humphrey Asamoah
PY - 2020/5/14
Y1 - 2020/5/14
N2 - African political elites have been forthcoming with military support for United Nations peacekeeping missions, contributing substantially to these missions’ workforce. Despite their contribution, most studies on peacekeeping omit the African soldier’s voice on his experiences of the African war theatre. This article features Ghanaian soldiers’ narratives based on their peacekeeping deployments and illuminates how Ghanaian peacekeepers connect their experiences to their home society. In this contribution, I illustrate how Ghanaian soldiers’ narratives about peacekeeping experiences are framed as deterring examples for their home society, thus potentially impacting their actions and behaviours. Based on long-term qualitative research embedded with the Ghanaian military, drawing from interviews and informal conversations with peacekeeping veterans and serving military operatives, it is argued that Ghanaian soldiers’ narratives of peacekeeping experiences and the collective processes through which these narratives gain currency in the barracks and beyond are informed by introspection in the post-peacekeeping deployment phase
AB - African political elites have been forthcoming with military support for United Nations peacekeeping missions, contributing substantially to these missions’ workforce. Despite their contribution, most studies on peacekeeping omit the African soldier’s voice on his experiences of the African war theatre. This article features Ghanaian soldiers’ narratives based on their peacekeeping deployments and illuminates how Ghanaian peacekeepers connect their experiences to their home society. In this contribution, I illustrate how Ghanaian soldiers’ narratives about peacekeeping experiences are framed as deterring examples for their home society, thus potentially impacting their actions and behaviours. Based on long-term qualitative research embedded with the Ghanaian military, drawing from interviews and informal conversations with peacekeeping veterans and serving military operatives, it is argued that Ghanaian soldiers’ narratives of peacekeeping experiences and the collective processes through which these narratives gain currency in the barracks and beyond are informed by introspection in the post-peacekeeping deployment phase
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - peacekeeping
KW - introspection
KW - narratives
KW - Ghanaian military
KW - Ghanaian peacekeepers
U2 - 10.1177/0002039720922868
DO - 10.1177/0002039720922868
M3 - Journal article
VL - 55
SP - 50
EP - 72
JO - Africa Spectrum
JF - Africa Spectrum
SN - 0002-0397
IS - 1
ER -
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