“…Ghana's commitment to global peacekeeping has seen its forces serve in over 63 UN PKOs, currently with a total of 2,156 personnel in nine missions, the biggest contributions being in South Sudan, Lebanon and Mali. 2 Much of the existing literature outlines the history of Ghana's participation in PKOs (Edu-Afful et al, 2019 ;Asante, 2019;Austin, 1985); the rationale for providing peacekeepers ; the contribution to West African PKOs (Aboagye, 1999;Birikorang, 2007); the unintended consequences of PKOs (Aning, 2007a); the experiences from peacekeeping theatres (Aning & Edu-Afful, 2017;Kotia, 2015); the rebellion after participating in peacekeeping (Dwyer, 2015); and how the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has become a civilian-friendly army due to its peacekeeping activities abroad (Agyekum, 2019). Little, however, has been written about internal security provision when peacekeepers return home (Albrecht, 2022a).…”