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How can we systematically learn from incidents and critical events that occurs during international missions? In the project “Caglavica – the Good Example”, we have collected and compiled data from the riots in Caglavica in Kosovo, March 17 and 18, 2004.
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Units from Sweden, Norway and Finland have supplied us information from diaries, photographs, video sequences and audio from the radio networks.
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In the project we have also conducted more than 27 interviews with personnel that served during the international peace-keeping mission in Kosovo 2004.
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On April 24 and 25, VSL conducted The Participants’ Seminar in the project. Thirteen participants, with key roles during the riots in Caglavica reflected on the situation with guidance from Dr. Lars Laken Andersson, Dr. Johan Jenvald och Dr. Anders Holmström.
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After an introduction to methods, ethics, purpose and goal of the seminar, examples of data from the riot were showed. Six different questions were in focus for the seminar; medical issues, values, leadership, culture, the parallel process in Sweden during the riots, and feed back and lessons learned. Each subject was introduced through multimedia sequences from the riots replayed with CITE® Explorer and completed with key questions. In addition, sequences from the interviews were replayed to highlight significant topics in the course of events.
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The participants worked with a subjective timeline, on which they attached photographs and noted key words. Captain Jens Berglund presented the results from the field analysis team and the methods used to document the tactical and technical lessons learned. Important lessons for the future concluded The Participants’ Seminar.
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