Location: Pell Center, Salve Regina, Newport
Prepared for Peace?: The Use and Abuse of "Culture' in Military Simulations, Training, and Education
"Prepared for Peace? The Use and Abuse of 'Culture' in Military Simulations, Training and Education.' This workshop, co-sponsored by the Watson Institute and the Pell Center at Salve Regina, sets out to chart and analyze how soldiers are prepared for today's complex peace and conflict operations, focusing on cases from the Balkans and Iraq. While examining the overall shape of training regimes-tracing the balance of time and resources devoted to preparation for warfighting and peacekeeping, training for independent and multilateral deployments, and working alongside NGO workers and private contractors, for example-we will focus thematically on the first-hand experience of teachers and trainers in presenting abstract, fuzzy concepts of "cultural awareness" to professionals often acclimated to seeking direct solutions to concrete challenges, and examine the limits of converting insight gained in one specific theater of operations to generalizable principles. Speakers will include Senator Jack Reed (keynote), serving military officers, social scientists, simulation designers, and educators from military establishments. For further details, please contact liisu.carlson@salve.edu.
Location: Pell Center, Salve Regina, Newport
Location: Pell Center, Salve Regina, Newport
