'The Home Stress': The Role of Soldiers' Family Life on Peacekeeping Missions, the Case of Sierra Leone
'The Home Stress': The Role of Soldiers' Family Life on Peacekeeping Missions, the Case of Sierra Leone
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“家庭压力”：士兵家庭生活在维和任务中的作用——以塞拉利昂为例
DOI：
10.1080/13533312.2021.1996237
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Dwyer M
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作者：
Dwyer M
通过非洲联盟驻索马里特派团（非索特派团）塞拉利昂部署的案例，本研究认为，与家庭有关的压力是维和部署中经常被忽视的挑战。本文通过对参与部署的塞拉利昂士兵、军事决策者和外国顾问的深入采访，列出了造成与家庭有关的紧张局势并导致塞拉利昂维和人员士气低落的具体因素。这表明，部署中的家庭压力不仅仅是家庭分离的问题，它与军队的历史轨迹和派遣国的社会经济状况交织在一起。对塞拉利昂的关注凸显了士兵及其家人在低收入国家的部队派遣中可能承受的额外和独特的负担。
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.