CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE – UNITY FACTOR OR CHALLENGE IN THE MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE – UNITY FACTOR OR CHALLENGE IN THE MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present, analyze and understand the way in which cultural knowledge and the development of cross cultural competence contribute to the participants’ training for taking part into multinational joint missions, and also for the increase of their operational efficiency in order to accomplish the given tasks and, implicitly, of the planned objectives. The article takes into consideration the training methods, stressing the need to understand the strategies and the principles of action, of the way in which cross-cultural competence is developed and checked, in direct connection with the risks and the situational awareness from the theater of operations from Afghanistan and also with a direct relationship, on one hand, among the participating actors and, on the other hand, the relationship between them and the local population.

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