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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dwyer, Maggie
• Gbla, Osman

Titel

'The Home Stress': The Role of Soldiers' Family Life on Peacekeeping Missions, the Case of Sierra Leone

Ist Teil von

• International peacekeeping (London, England), 2022-01, Vol.29 (1), p.139-164

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Through the case of the Sierra Leonean deployment on the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), this study argues that family-related stress is an often-overlooked challenge in peacekeeping deployments. Using in-depth interviews with Sierra Leonean soldiers who were part of the deployment, military decision makers, and foreign advisors, this article lays out specific factors that created family-related tensions and contributed to lowered morale for Sierra Leonean peacekeepers. It demonstrates that the family-related stress on deployment is not only an issue of family separation, it is entangled with the historic trajectories of the armed forces and the sending country's socio-economic conditions. The focus on Sierra Leone highlights the additional and unique burdens that soldiers and their families may endure in troop contributions from lower-income countries.