The soldier and the task: Austria's experience of preparing peacekeepers

The sociological dimension of external military interventions: The Portuguese military abroad

“…Likewise, in an examination of Austria's experience of preparing peacekeepers, Kernic (1999) underlined the diversity of motivations and value orientation of soldiers in international peacekeeping and concluded that 'different kinds of peacekeeping missions require different kinds of training and, correspondingly, different kinds of soldiers to carry out the mission' (Kernic 1999: 113).…”

‘Coalitions of the willing’ and humanitarian intervention: Australia's involvement with INTERFET

“…A soldier who understands that 'victory' is not the end goal and who can then adapt his military professionalism to the requirements of his peacekeeping role. 31 This is of course the challenge for Downloaded by [McGill University Library] at 06:53 14 October 2014 military training today. Interestingly, coinciding with Australia's INTERFET deployment, the suggestion arose that, for small, secure and stable nations such as Australia, the more cost-effective way ahead for its defence forces may lie in substituting a humanitarian ethos for the traditional combat oriented mindset.…”

It's not their job to soldier: distinguishing civilian and military in soldiers' and interpreters' accounts of peacekeeping in 1990s Bosnia-Herzegovina

“…Some, more recently, have used ethnographic fieldwork or qualitative interviewing to discuss peacekeepers' on-the-ground experiences (e.g. Kernic 1999;Koedijk 2002;Kretchik 2004;Bos and Soeters 2006;Sion 2008). The presence of a large semi-permanent military force all too often invites an informal economy of smuggling and sexual exploitation that undermines the intervention's stated aims (Skjelsbaek 2004;Andreas 2008).…”