Social and Cultural Impacts towards Sri Lankan Military from United Nations Missions

Abstract

Due to the current ongoing economic crisis government has implemented di erent strategies to overcome from this issue. Also, as a policy government trying reduce the weight of government workers during this period and also, to gain maximum outcome from the government employees. Further, Sri Lanka military leading with Sri Lanka Army hold a deluxe image in the world on completing a humanitarian mission against the world no 1 terrorist group. Considering the post war activities which work along on disaster management, urban warfare and cyber security issues Sri Lankan Army and other forces engaged actively on these missions for the bene ts of the state and the Sri Lankan. As a result of that there is a trend and ongoing discussion to increase the number of soldiers on UN missions as a strategy to gain more foreign currencies to the island. In parallel to economic bene ts there are lots of bene ts which Sri Lankan military can achieve through those missions. Based to that fact author structured the research on evaluating the other non-economic bene ts from United Nations (UN) missions. Mainly as an island nation Sri Lanka failed to blend with other countries as equally as other nations. Due to these missions Sri Lanka were able to work with the soldiers all around the world and this knowledge, thinking patterns and other skills positively e ects on Sri Lanka military. Also, considering the structure of Sri Lankan Army and other tri-forces author urged that each and every individual of the military earns several professional and survival skills during the military carrier. Working on UN missions especially under a di erent geographical, cultural environment helps soldiers to improve their skills and also to try those skills under unfamiliar situations. Therefore, author used the di erent articles, literature to nd out the experiences and other related knowledge whilst making several interviews, discussions with military o cers and other rank personalities to nd out rst hand data on this scope of the research.