chasing the invisible this is so obvious... so why can’t we see it?
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Managing multi-cultural teams in
conflict environments
Chasing the invisible
This is so obvious...
So WHY can’t we see it?
What is culture?
• ‘Culture, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.’
• Edward Burnett Tylor ( 1871)
• How important is cultural competence for the 21st century peacekeepers?
Military maps
• RED
• BLUE
Attitude to “uniform”
Choose the word which best describes the attitude to police in your own country :
• respect• security • justice • force • fear • corruption
Are Hofstede’s cultural dimensions still valid?
Social networks : society structure
• social welfare Denmark • written rules Germany• tribal hierarchy Sierra Leone• religious beliefs ? • vertical hierarchy ?
Individual versus group
ДАНИЯ
High/Low context society
• All the information in words/all the information in codes
• Emotions hidden/emotional outbursts
• ? ??
PARIS - NEW YORK
Communication
Power distance: International contingent, Helmand
UK, US, Denmark and Estonia :
Different lines of communication
Different meanings behind various strategic concepts
OSCE Special Monitoring mission to Ukraine
• Established on 21 March 2014• 300 Monitors deployed in
the first two weeks• 57 countries sent their
representatives• Monitors operating in ten
cities across Ukraine
G8 Science Ministers’ meetingFinal document
• France Holistic approach, let’s involve all the emotions and have the document beautifully crafted
• Germany We have to make sure that all the rules and procedures are listed and thought through
• Italy We need to think how the changes of scientists careers’ affect their families
• Russia We disagree with a number of points and will come back to you with our position later.
