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How do countries like Ghana and India – two of the main contributors of troops to UN peacekeeping missions – define, approach, and experience the task of protecting civilians? What do they consider the key components of such protection to be? And what do they think is required to protect civilians? In this report, Peter Albrecht and Sukanya Podder address these questions and more, concluding that the individual combat experience of troop-contributing countries is a defining feature of how protection of civilians is approached in peacekeeping missions.