Interview 254 from the Veterans Institute (Veteranen Instituut) features a Dutch Marine's account of his deployment to Cambodia as a UN observer. The veteran discusses his logistical role at the headquarters in Phnom Penh, the conditions of poverty and landmines, and his reflections on the mission's organization and his subsequent military career. 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 UN peacekeeping missions based on the detailed personal narrative.
- Studying the organizational challenges of international military missions based on the interviewee's critique of bureaucracy and waste.
- Researching civil-military relations and local reception of peacekeepers based on described positive contacts with the Cambodian population.
Strengths
- First-person narrative provides detailed qualitative insights into a specific UN peacekeeping mission.
- Interview is part of a curated collection from the Veterans Institute, suggesting a degree of institutional vetting.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Veteranen Instituut (Veterans Institute)
- Collection Method
- Oral history interview.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-24 03:34:46; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Cambodia (Phnom Penh), Netherlands, Curaçao.