Respect and responsibility: tensions between cultural effectivity and moral responsibility in morally and culturally critical situations

Doing the wrong things for the right reason captures the intention of what the authors aim at. They point at the very awkward situation wherein soldiers on mission try to respect the indigenous population so much, that they almost neglect or look away from their own moral anchors. Respecting the other stems from lessons learned from operations and is implemented in mission-oriented training, but when soldiers respectfully look away from injustice, cultural competences result in moral disengagement. Chai boys or dancing boys may be a phenomenon in some mission areas, but to intervening soldiers they do pose a moral problem. Lessons in moral competences should bebalanced with ethics training in order not to end up in trained incapacity