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International Review of Sociology
Revue Internationale de Sociologie
Volume 17, 2007 - Issue 1
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Motivation for Peace Operations

Pages 73-85 | Published online: 17 Apr 2007
 

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1. The Swiss soldiers were deployed in KFOR mission as unarmed military persons, due to country's decision to stay fully neutral in the conflict. After significant public debate, the citizens decided at the referendum in 2002 that Swiss soldiers are allowed to carry weapons in peace operations.

2. The media in the Balkans recipient countries many times stresses the problem of ‘peace business’, as description of the negative results of peace missions, seen in the commercial and sectoral interests of international organizations in their peacekeeping efforts.

3. In peace enforcement operations, soldiers are expected to act in a military robust way.

4. As noticed among Slovenian all-volunteers, who entered the Slovenian Army in 2003, being attracted by the media presentation of the peacekeeping activities.

5. In one Slovenian survey among peacekeepers we recognised that even veterans in peacekeeping, those who joined the missions two or more times, are still subjected to disappointment, while passing the initial stage of the mission.

6. Slovenian soldiers, deployed in SFOR, Hosnia and Herzegovina, used to complain in survey on peacekeeping (JeluŠiČ et al, 2004), that they were trained for combat missions, they are combatants, but nothing in the mission looked like a combat theatre.

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