Introduction: The Distinctive Role of Culture in Peacekeeping

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Michael Pugh for his invaluable support in realizing this special issue on ‘culture and peacekeeping’. Notes See also Roland Paris's article on ‘global culture’ referring to an international normative environment that shapes the design of peacekeeping operations in fundamental ways: ‘Peacekeeping and the Constraints of Global Culture’, European Journal of International Relations, Vol.9, No.3, 2003, pp.441–73. Amitav Gosh, ‘The Global Reservation: Notes toward an Ethnography of International Peacekeeping’, Cultural Anthropology, Vol.9, No.3, 1994, pp.412–22. Oliver Ramsbotham, Tom Woodhouse and Hugh Miall, Contemporary Conflict Resolution, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005, pp.141–3. See Nigel Rapport and Joanna Overing, Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts, London: Routledge, 2000, p.97. Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays, New York: Basic Books, 1973, p.10. Rapport and Overing (see n.4 above), p.96. Tim Ingold, ‘Introduction to Culture’, in Ingold (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life, New York: Routledge, 2002, p.330, original emphasis. Robert Rubinstein, Peacekeeping under Fire, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2008.