Cultural intelligence and conflict ethnography: The importance of the anthropological knowledge for military advisors in fighting international violent extremist groups

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methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales. Vol. 10 Núm. 2 (2022)
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Published: Oct 31, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17502/mrcs.v10i2.560
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antropología de la guerra, estrategias de negociación, análisis de la guerra, estudios de seguridad, terrorismo anthropology of war, negotiation strategies, war analysis, security studies, terrorism
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Federico Prizzi
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7943-4570
Punt-Institute, Addoun University

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The aim of this paper is twofold. That is, to present the Cultural Intelligence. A new method of anthropological analysis on the battlefield to support military intelligence in order to study subversive, terrorist and insurgent groups. Moreover, it is to define a new professional figure in military units and staffs: the ethnographer of war. A professional who, necessarily, must have a great military background and who must know how to apply the typical methodology of the ethnographic gathering to the analysis of unconventional military organizations that work to destabilize a state. A research that, therefore, has the ambition to give a small contribution to the technicians of the sector with the awareness that, in order to face the wars of the future, there will be an increasing need for an anthropological perspective.

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Prizzi, F. (2022). Cultural intelligence and conflict ethnography: The importance of the anthropological knowledge for military advisors in fighting international violent extremist groups. methaodos.Social Science Journal, 10(2), 322-334. https://doi.org/10.17502/mrcs.v10i2.560
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Author Biography

Federico Prizzi, Punt-Institute, Addoun University

Anthropologist at the Punt-Institute of the Addoun University of Galkaio in Puntland and member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. As expert in military Cultural Intelligence, he has carried out numerous field researches in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the Balkans. He is Subject Matter Expert of Civil-Military Cooperation and Negotiation.

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