An oral history interview with a CIMIC officer who served with EUFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The interview covers the officer's daily work and life on Camp Butmir in Sarajevo from January 2009, including organizing the EUFOR School Competition. The dataset is provided by the Veteranen Instituut and was last updated on October 24, 2025.
Use Cases
- Analyzing daily life and work of peacekeeping personnel based on the officer's personal account.
- Studying community engagement and reconciliation projects like the EUFOR School Competition described in the interview.
- Researching the role of information officers (voorlichtingsofficier) in military missions based on the officer's stated duties.
Strengths
- Interview provides a first-person account of a specific EUFOR mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Description includes specific temporal context (summer/autumn 2008 training, arrival in Sarajevo January 2009).
- Dataset is hosted by the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities Collection, suggesting a degree of institutional curation.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Veteranen Instituut
- Collection Method
- Oral history interview
- Time Range
- 2008-2009
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-24 03:22:47; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, specifically Sarajevo and Camp Butmir