The experience of male soldiers during peacekeeping missions: A qualitative study.

Rollero, Chiara; Sanctis, Silvia De

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“…These are: isolation, ambiguity, powerlessness, danger or threat, and boredom (Bartone, Adler, & Vaitkus, 1998). Rollero and De Sanctis (2019) conducted a study on the experiences of Italian male peacekeepers, and the five themes elicited from the narratives were: the motivation to participate in an operation; the group as a buffer against combat-related stress; the hardest aspects of the experience; coping strategies towards the mission, perceived as a life-or-death experience; and benefits and negative consequences after going back home.…”

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All eyes on Sudan: The journey of female psychologists in the theatre of operation

Zungu¹,

Visagie²

2020

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology

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Because you can name something does not mean you understand it. Because you understand it does not mean it can be named. (Halcolm, as cited in Patton, 2002, p. 429) Orientation: South African National Defence Force (SANDF) psychologists fulfil one of the most challenging roles within the psychological profession when deployed in peacekeeping operations (PKOs).Research purpose: This study aimed at gaining an in-depth understanding of the experiences of female military psychologists during deployment in a PKO in the Darfur region.Motivation for the study: The study aimed to gain an insight into the unique experiences of female SANDF psychologists in the theatre of operation (deployment area) and to create a body of knowledge regarding SANDF psychologists' deployment experiences, with specific reference to female psychologists.Research design/approach and method: A case study approach informed the framework for the study set against the backdrop of a qualitative, constructivist, hermeneutic research paradigm. Written personal accounts were evoked through visuals or photographic materials, obtained during in-depth interviews. Researchers used content analysis, and developed themes and subthemes with the use of an open-coding approach.Main findings: Three main themes were elicited: deployment experiences, peacekeeping deployment experiences and experiences of female psychologists. Each theme was supported by four subthemes. Practical/managerial implications:The study facilitated an increased understanding of the personal impact of PKO experiences on the journey of female psychologists serving in the SANDF in Darfur. Contribution/value-add:This research provides a platform for the sharing and understanding of the unique experiences of health care workers of the SANDF deployed in the mission area, with specific reference to female psychologists. This co-created understanding acts as a space where psychologists can share a community for support if required post-deployment.

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All eyes on Sudan: The journey of female psychologists in the theatre of operation

Zungu¹,

Visagie²

2020

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology

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“…The promise and optimism of omniculturalism and inclusivity contrasts sharply with children’s use of symbols of interethnic differences (Taylor, Tomovska Misoska, Dautel, & Rylander, 2020) and different aspects of intergroup contact between Arabs and Jews in Israel (Gith, 2020; Zigenlaub & Sagy, 2020). The final two brief research reports focus on the practical questions of whether coupling an apology with compensation receives a more favorable reaction from victims (Ohtsubo, 2020) and how soldiers experience peacekeeping missions (Rollero & De Sanctis, 2020).…”

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Strongman leadership and mutual radicalization.

Moghaddam

2020

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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The rise of "strongman leadership" across the globe, including in Western societies, has been noted in both the mass media and academic publications. Also noted is the tendency for strongman leadership to be associated with antiglobalization, anti-international institutions, and antiuniversal human rights. But less attention has been given to the tendency for strongman leadership to nurture and accelerate mutual radicalization, the process through which groups and nations drive each other to extremes (Moghaddam, 2018). This comes about in large part because strongman leaders are categorical thinkers, authoritarian, and ethnocentric: They not only perceive the world as strictly divided into "us versus them," but they also mobilize supporters through the rhetoric of ingroup superiority and aggression against "others." Depending on the context, these others can be Mexicans, Muslims, Blacks, Jews, or other minorities. What all these minorities have in common is that they are dissimilar to "our group."The mobilization achieved by the strongman is through pathological hatred: We will do whatever it takes to reject and harm you, even if we suffer in the process. Whatever the cost to us, your pain is our gain. The inevitable result of behavior driven by pathological hatred is the growth of different types of conflict. For example, inside countries the persecution of minorities instigated by the strongman leads to increased intergroup conflicts, such as of the kind we are witnessing between Hindus and Muslims in India, White nationalists and Indigenous people in Brazil, Turkish nationalists and Kurds in Turkey, and Shiites and Sunnis in Syria. Rather than trying to transform and minimize such conflicts, the strongman feeds hatreds and uses conflicts to mobilize his authoritarian base and further move the country along a path of mutual radicalization.Mutual radicalization through strongman leadership also results in heightened conflict between nations, as in the case of Iran and the United States. The strongman leadership in both Iran and the United States mobilizes their base through this conflict and also distracts from their internal problems. In Iran, the leadership keeps up a drumbeat of "Death to America" as a way to blame external factors for the terrible plight of Iranians and to justify the continuation of a corrupt dictatorship with a religious front. In the United States, the Trump administration finds Iran a useful distraction from the impeachment of the president, the cutting of food stamps and other support for the poor, and tax policies that transfer more wealth to the rich.In societies characterized by mutual radicalization, people arrive at a balkanized position where they feel "we can no longer talk to the other side," "the gap between us is too far to bridge," "there is no longer a middle way." Each side sees the other side as radical, irrational, incapable of reasoning and compromising. Each side asks, "How can they believe those things? How can they think like that? How can they deny the obvious facts?...

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The experience of male soldiers during peacekeeping missions: A qualitative study.

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All eyes on Sudan: The journey of female psychologists in the theatre of operation

All eyes on Sudan: The journey of female psychologists in the theatre of operation

Strongman leadership and mutual radicalization.

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