CONFLICTUL CULTURAL ȘI ACULTURAȚIA
CONFLICTUL CULTURAL ȘI ACULTURAȚIA

Summary/Abstract: Leveled against conflict management theory, culture becomes a mainstay for the preparation and development of operations during international military missions. Because citizens are influenced by culture on multiple levels - national, ethnic, religious, and organizational -, cultural conflict requires an approach based on predictive models and cross-cultural competencies. The present study is conceived as a synthesis of the literature in the field of the strategic culture. Based on the interpretation model used in social sciences, cross-cultural competencies aim at avoiding failures which might occur from the confrontation of two different cultural paradigms. The ethnocentric tendency, which weighs down biases and analogies borrowed from the source culture to the host culture, constitutes a “categorization process” (a stereo-typing tendency), which is balanced by cultural knowledge, aiming at the possibility of understanding different core values and beliefs. Cultural competencies represent the method used to resolve the cultural conflict which results from the clash of two different “civil cultures” (opposing values and traditions). Cross-cultural competencies strongly influence the understanding of the human factors, during cross-cultural military missions. The study searches to draw a distinction between cultural conflict, acculturation and military culture.

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