The Impacts of Cross-Cultural Awareness on Peacekeepers’ Cooperation
Mohamed El Attar, Abdeslam Badre, & Mohamed Karimi
The purpose of this article is to examine how intercultural awareness affects peacekeepers’ coordination. Given the cultural divergences of the participants in these missions, it is natural for cultural conflicts to arise throughout their interactions. Therefore, multicultural awareness is necessary to help them interact properly and prevent intercultural clashes that could disturb their mission. In this respect, the article is meant to review multicultural awareness while considering peacekeeping ethics, show how this awareness facilitates peacekeepers’ interactions, elucidate the relationship between their cultural homogeneity and unity of action, expose the extent to which their interoperability depends on their cross-cultural understanding, provide an overview of conflict resolution in their communication system, and analyze cultural challenges for their intercommunications. As a result, it becomes clear that cross-cultural understanding is essential to the blue helmets’ ability to carry out their common tasks.