Assembling UN Peacekeeping and Counterterrorism in Ghana

• DOI: 10.4314/contjas.v9i1.7
• Publication Date: 2022-06-29T09:30:56Z
• Authors: Maya Mynster Chri...
• Keywords: Peacekeeping; Unpacking; International security

Through the case of Ghana, this article proposes a link between international peacekeeping deployments and national processes stabilisation. Based on fieldwork among soldiers police officers, it explores how experiences are transferred translated into security provision at home within field counterterrorism. Introducing notion ‘peacekeeping-counterterrorism assemblage’ as an analytical lens for unpacking co-production external internal and, more specifically, practices through which become entangled with counterterror policing, empirically unfolds relational societal impact domestic security. The exposure to human consequences warfare in missions, shows, has nurtured profound awareness keeping war distance, may have preventive effect policing threat terrorism, well broader dynamics stability Ghana