@article{0ab97d32a61a4a56b4f93bb023ea8e6e,
title = "Cross-Cultural Considerations in Complex Peace Operations",
abstract = "Peace operations create the potential for culturally-based problems in interactions among different organizational actors and with local populations. Because it is impossible to catalog all of the different groups and cultures that may participate in peace operations, it is necessary to develop a general approach to culture and peacekeeping. The author presents a view of culture as a model for understanding and action, and describes some ways in which cultural models are manifest. Specific cultural differences between military and humanitarian participants in peace operations are discussed, as are areas of potential cultural concern for interaction with local populations. Suggestions about approaching these cross-cultural considerations are offered.",
author = "Rubinstein, {Robert A.}",
note = "Funding Information: The work reported in this essay was supported by grants from the Ploughshares Fund, the Wen-ner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the United States Institute of Peace. This essay evolved from a paper that was originally presented at the conference “Political Authority and Harmonization in Peace Operations,” organized by Jarat Chopra and James McCallum and held in June 1999, under the auspices of Brown University and the Peacekeeping Institute of the United States Army War College, in Newport, R.I. Subsequent drafts were presented at the biennial meeting of the Inter-university Seminar on Armed Forces and Society in Baltimore, Md. in October 1999 and at the 18th General Conference of the International Peace Research Association, in Tampere, Finland in August 2000. I thank Kevin Avruch, John Burdick, Carolyn Nordstrom, Anna Simons and Donna Winslow for comments on this project. I am grateful to Kristi Simkins and Linda Heilman-Curran for assistance with data analysis and also to Michael Waller for bibliographic assistance.",
year = "2003",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1023/A:1022399824684",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "19",
pages = "29--49",
journal = "Negotiation Journal",
issn = "0748-4526",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "1",
}