Veteran Institute Interview 1008: Experiences in Albania and Former Yugoslavia

An oral history interview transcript from the Veterans Institute, cataloged as IPNV interview 1008. The interview subject discusses their deployments to Albania and the Former Yugoslavia, their training and career as a reserve officer, and their critical perspectives on political organization and veteran policy. The dataset was last updated on October 24, 2025, and is part of the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities collection.

Use Cases

• Analyzing veteran perspectives on peacekeeping mandates based on the subject's critique of political organization.
• Studying the challenges of demining operations based on the description of the UNMAC Demining Centre and funding issues.
• Examining post-deployment reintegration and veteran policy based on the subject's critical reflections on returning to the Netherlands.
• Mapping military career paths and training based on the subject's discussion of their education and service as a reserve officer.

Strengths

• Interview provides first-hand, detailed narrative of specific peacekeeping missions in Albania and Bosnia.
• Dataset is part of a formal institutional collection (Veteranen Instituut) hosted by DANS, a trusted data archive.
• Metadata includes a precise last update timestamp of 2025-10-24 03:26:13.

Limitations

• Row count and file format are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description is a narrative summary; the actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Veteranen Instituut (Veterans Institute)

Collection Method

Oral history interview, likely transcribed.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-24 03:26:13; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Albania, Former Yugoslavia (specifically Bosnia), the Netherlands