Posts Tagged ‘Human Terrain’

Social Scientists & War

I just don’t understand why academic anthropologists are so viscerally opposed to the Pentagon’s Human Terrain program. If injecting cultural sensitivity into the military can defuse tensions and reduce conflict in a war zone, isn’t that a good thing?  I can appreciate the ethical concerns, but from what little I’ve followed on this, it seems… Continue Reading…

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War Zone Advisors

Is there a difference between non-military experts serving alongside combatant soldiers in a war and those that are part of a peacekeeping force in a war-torn country? I wondered about this today after reading about plans to add  “green” advisors to U.N peacekeeping operations in countries where chronic instability is fueled by over-exploitation of the…Continue Reading…

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