The Impact of UN Peacekeeping Operations on Human Trafficking

Horne, Cale; Barney, Morgan

doi:10.1111/imig.12606

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“…Ten articles centred on two closely related unintended consequences produced by peacekeeping missions. The first concerns patterns of peacekeeper misconduct, more specifically the sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) of host country citizens (Aning & Edu‐Afful, 2013; Fluri, 2012; Jennings, 2010; Kolbe, 2015), while the second concerns observed increases in human sex trafficking (Horne & Barney, 2019; Jennings, 2010; Smith & Smith, 2011). Both can be categorised as process‐based, negative spillover effects, although in some UN missions, there are blurred lines between gender‐focused work and peacekeeping goals (which would thus indicate a backfire effect).…”

Section: Five Key Unintended Gender Effects Of Aidmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Third, the UN presence suppresses local criminal networks, opening the market for international trafficking entrepreneurs. Fourth, post‐conflict circumstances make it easier for human trafficking to take place in the absence of a properly functioning police force and in the presence of a weak judiciary and penal system (Horne & Barney, 2019). Meta‐analyses of several peacekeeping missions (taking into account both qualitative and quantitative data) found that increases in trafficking follow discernible patterns (Horne & Barney, 2019; Smith & Smith, 2011).…”

Section: Five Key Unintended Gender Effects Of Aidmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fourth, post‐conflict circumstances make it easier for human trafficking to take place in the absence of a properly functioning police force and in the presence of a weak judiciary and penal system (Horne & Barney, 2019). Meta‐analyses of several peacekeeping missions (taking into account both qualitative and quantitative data) found that increases in trafficking follow discernible patterns (Horne & Barney, 2019; Smith & Smith, 2011). For instance, larger foreign peacekeeping forces spark sharper increases in human trafficking, and when there were fewer troops, the impact on trafficking was less pronounced (Smith & Smith, 2011, p. 138).…”

Section: Five Key Unintended Gender Effects Of Aidmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A review of the unintended gender effects of international development efforts

Harst

Koch

Brink

2023

Public Admin & Development

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There is widespread recognition among scholars, international aid providers and evaluators of the need to take into account the unintended outcomes of international development efforts. Practitioners have also signed on to charters that promise they will do their utmost best to ‘do no harm’. This article focusses on the often overlooked unintended gender effects. A rigorous literature review was conducted to reveal some of the most prominent unintended consequences as documented in primary research in development studies. Five prevalent unintended gender effects were identified: (1) household dynamics, (2) anti‐foreign backfire, (3) overburdening of women, (4) human trafficking and sexual exploitation and (5) hype. While not all of the unintended gender effects are negative, most of the reported unintended effects jeopardise the intended outcomes of the interventions. This research provides both a call and a tool to analyse more systematically the unintended gender effects of international development efforts.

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Section: Five Key Unintended Gender Effects Of Aidmentioning

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Section: Five Key Unintended Gender Effects Of Aidmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Five Key Unintended Gender Effects Of Aidmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A review of the unintended gender effects of international development efforts

Harst

Koch

Brink

2023

Public Admin & Development

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“…The migratory effects of peacekeeping missions are well documented [54][55][56]. When internally displaced people flock to the area around a blue-helmet compound, the effects can be short-term.…”

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Assessing International Development Cooperation: Becoming Intentional about Unintended Effects

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International headlines often make mention of side effects of international cooperation, ranging from aid-fuelled corruption to the negative side effects of volunteer tourism. The OECD Development Assistance Committee, an international forum of many of the largest providers of aid, prescribes that evaluators should consider if an intervention has unintended effects. Yet the little that is known suggests that few evaluations of international cooperation projects systematically assess their unintended effects. To address this gap in assessing unintended effects, this study develops an operational typology of 10 types of unintended effects of international cooperation that have emerged in the literature and applies this to all 644 evaluations of the Netherlands’ development cooperation between 2000 and 2020 using structured text mining with manual verification. The results show that approximately 1 in 6 evaluations carefully considered unintended effects and identified 177 different ones. With the exception of 5, these could be classified in 9 of the 10 typologies, indicating that this typology can guide international development cooperation to systematically consider and assess its unintended effects. International development planners, researchers and evaluators are recommended to henceforth make use of and improve this operational typology.

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Spiral to Surveillance: The Effect of INGOs on Levels of Peacekeeper Misconduct

Barney,

Borror

2024

International Studies Quarterly

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Abstracts Over the last twenty years, the international relations literature has sought to understand the conditions in which peacekeeping operations (PKOs) occur and the efficacy of their presence. Much work has focused on PKOs’ relationship to civilians in civil conflict, but less is understood about the influences on peacekeeping missions’ quality. If PKOs commit human rights abuses, how might other actors deter exploitive PKO behavior in the domestic context? We argue international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) provide a monitoring and socializing effect on PKOs. Using the Peacekeeper Attributes (PKAT) and Transnational Social Movements (TSMO) datasets, we analyze peacekeeping missions from 2007 to 2013. Through zero-inflated negative binomial regression, we found that the presence of general INGOs decreases rates of misconduct, and human rights INGOs decrease rates of misconduct. However, we find that the presence of women’s rights-focused INGOs does not decrease rates of sexual misconduct among PKO troops.

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The Impact of UN Peacekeeping Operations on Human Trafficking

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

A review of the unintended gender effects of international development efforts

A review of the unintended gender effects of international development efforts

Assessing International Development Cooperation: Becoming Intentional about Unintended Effects

Spiral to Surveillance: The Effect of INGOs on Levels of Peacekeeper Misconduct

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