Veteranen Instituut, IPNV, interview 1262

A Dutch veteran's oral history interview details his parallel military and civilian careers. The interview covers his deployments as a reserve officer and consultant with IDEA, a defense-related business support unit, to Bosnia in 2001 and 2003 and to Uruzgan, Afghanistan, in 2008 and 2010. The dataset was contributed by the Veteranen Instituut and last updated on October 24, 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyzing narrative structures in veteran life stories based on the detailed personal account.
• Studying the role of military reservists in civilian-led reconstruction projects based on the IDEA unit's mission.
• Examining cross-cultural business challenges in post-conflict economies based on the description of Bosnian entrepreneurs.
• Researching the experiences of personnel within Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan based on the interviewee's role.

Strengths

• Interview provides a detailed first-person account of specific deployments in 2001, 2003, 2008, and 2010.
• Dataset is hosted by DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities, a recognized data archive.
• Platform tags provide clear topical classification for discovery.

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 single interview format limits generalizability and statistical analysis.

Provenance

Source

Veteranen Instituut

Collection Method

Oral history interview.

Time Range

Interview references events from 2001 to 2010.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-24 03:23:05; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Uruzgan, Afghanistan.