The International Journal of Technology, Innovation, and Education

ISSN: 2820 – 7521

Volume 2, 2024 – Issue 2

The impacts of cross-cultural awareness on peacekeepers’ cooperation

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14796187

Abstract

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.

Keywords: peacekeeping, multicultural awareness, enhancing peacekeepers’ cooperation. 

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El Attar, M., Badre, A., & Karimi, M. (2024). The impacts of cross-cultural awareness on peacekeepers’ cooperation. The International Journal of Technology, Innovation, and Education, 2(2), 102–113. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14796187

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El Attar, Mohamed, Abdeslam Badre, and Mohamed Karimi. 2024. “The Impacts of Cross-Cultural Awareness on Peacekeepers’ Cooperation.” The International Journal of Technology, Innovation, and Education 2 (2): 102–13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14796187.

El Attar, Mohamed, et al. “The Impacts of Cross-Cultural Awareness on Peacekeepers’ Cooperation.” The International Journal of Technology, Innovation, and Education, vol. 2, no. 2, July 2024, pp. 102–13, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14796187.

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M. El Attar, A. Badre, and M. Karimi, “The impacts of cross-cultural awareness on peacekeepers’ cooperation,” The International Journal of Technology, Innovation, and Education, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 102–113, Jul. 2024, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14796187.

El Attar, M., Badre, A. and Karimi, M. (2024) ‘The impacts of cross-cultural awareness on peacekeepers’ cooperation’, The International Journal of Technology, Innovation, and Education, 2(2), pp. 102–113. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14796187.

El Attar M, Badre A, Karimi M. The impacts of cross-cultural awareness on peacekeepers’ cooperation. The International Journal of Technology, Innovation, and Education [Internet]. 2024 Jul 27;2(2):102–13. Available from: https://ijtie.com/v202/n78

El Attar, M., Badre, A., & Karimi, M. (2024). The impacts of cross-cultural awareness on peacekeepers’ cooperation. The International Journal of Technology, Innovation, and Education, 2(2), 102–113. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14796187

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About the authors
  1. Mohamed El Attar, English Department, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Mohammed V University, Rabat – Morocco.

    medattar61@gmail.com
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  2. Abdeslam Badre, a professor at Mohammed 5 University, NEF Fellow (2019-2020) & former NEF ambassador (2016-2018). His research focuses on public policies of higher education and social economy of three social groups; migrants, youth & women. He seeks to analyse the current norms that hamper the progress and livelihood of women, youth and migrants, as social groups, as well as generating evidence-based recommendations that could inform national and regional policies, providing comparable data across borders on key African countries, while addressing the causes of entrenched marginalisation. As a GYA alumni, Badre has been co-leading the GLOSYS Africa Project (2015-2020). Currently, he is doing research on sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco (2-year fellowship project 2019-2020, Princeton University and the University of Michigan.
    Previously, he served visiting professor positions at Alfred University in New York, Monterey Institute for International Studies in California, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; Aalborg University in Denmark, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, and Babes Bolyai University in Romania. He served as an Editor of Social Science Section for ELSAVIEER & Scientific African (2019-2020). After obtaining his PhD, Badre completed a Carnegie postdoctoral fellowship, (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2014); a visiting post-doc fellowship (United Nations University of Barcelona, 2015); and a fellowship (Arab Council for Social Science, 2017-2018). He has an MA in international Relation and Diplomacy (Babes Bolyai University); an MBA in Human Resources Management (New York); an MA in Science Education (Rabat); and a DESA in Cultural Studies (Fez).
    Badre published dozens of articles in international journals and spoke at over 400 international conferences worldwide. Among his (co) published books are: ‘Voices of Early Career Researchers in and out of the Academy: A Pan- African Perspective’, (2020); ‘Youth Policy Manual for Arab Countries: How to develop a national youth strategy,’ (2013); ‘International Negotiations for Economic Diplomacy,’ (2014); and ‘La Participation Citoyenne,’ (2016). He is now the editor for the “Social Sciences and Policy (SOC)” section of the Scientific African Journal. He is a member of NEF Community of Scientists (NEF-CoS); Global Young Academy (GYA); American Political Science association (APSA); International Political Science Association (IPSA); Next Einstein Forum Ambassador Program; Africa Science Leadership program (ASLP); Future Africa; and Fulbright Alumni Association.

    abdeslambadre@yahoo.com
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  3. Mohamed Karimi, English Department, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Mohammed V University, Rabat – Morocco

    mkarimi25@yahoo.com ↩︎
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