The Real Reasons Peacekeeping Fails

Jett, Dennis C.

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“…Further, additional effort can be made to better link UN peacekeeping goals to democratic self-interests, such as reducing the threat of transnational terrorism via PKO host-state stabilization. 31 Further, improving democratic state linkages in multilateral institutions could motivate greater contributions given interdependencies in the broader international security environment (Joshi, 2020). Involving democracies in setting policies and practices for the purpose of pursuing political goals and mandate implementation may improve participation.…”

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Sticking it out: Instability, regime type, and personnel withdrawals from UN peacekeeping operations

Melin

Kathman

2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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What explains UN member-state personnel withdrawals from peacekeeping operations? Withdrawals can occur at the behest of contributor states, as contributions are voluntary. We argue that withdrawal is motivated by violence in the peacekeeping operation host state. Research shows that well-resourced missions improve the prospects of success. Personnel withdrawals are dangerous, as they are more likely when continued deployments are needed. We thus need to understand why some states resist withdrawing in the face of instability. We argue that democracies are more stalwart than their counterparts given their constituency interests, the democratic benefits of peacekeeping and the political cover offered to democratic policymakers.

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Sticking it out: Instability, regime type, and personnel withdrawals from UN peacekeeping operations

Melin

Kathman

2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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“…While the bulk of the quantitative studies have found that peace operations, on average, are associated with positive improvements on a variety of outcomes, the qualitative evidence offers an abundant critique of peace-operation performance (Autesserre, 2010; Howard, 2008; Jett, 2000; Kuperman, 2008; Paris, 2004; Von Billerbeck, 2016). It is not hard to identify peace operations that have been mired by dysfunction.…”

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Can peace operations mitigate the effect of armed conflict on malnutrition? Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Beardsley

Beardsley²

2023

Environment and Security

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Armed conflict increases food insecurity leading to malnutrition especially in women, but can peace operations mitigate the increased prevalence of malnutrition in conflict zones? This study uses women’s nutrition outcomes—key indicators of societal health and peace potential in a community—as a lens through which one can understand downstream, long-term, consequences of exposures to violence both with and without the presence of United Nations peacekeepers. Comparing data of adult women in Côte d’Ivoire from the Demographic and Health Surveys, across two waves that cover pre-conflict and post-conflict periods, shows that peace-operation deployments mitigated the relationship between conflict and malnutrition. Exposure to armed conflict in the absence of peace operations is associated with an increased propensity for underweight, while exposure to armed conflict in the presence of peacekeeping troops is not associated with an increased propensity for underweight. A cross-national analysis using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization also confirms that food security, as well as cereal and meat production, in the wake of conflict improves with peace-operation deployments.

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The Real Reasons Peacekeeping Fails

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Sticking it out: Instability, regime type, and personnel withdrawals from UN peacekeeping operations

Sticking it out: Instability, regime type, and personnel withdrawals from UN peacekeeping operations

Can peace operations mitigate the effect of armed conflict on malnutrition? Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

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