Gizelis, Theodora Ismene and Benson, Michelle (2019) Advancing the Frontier of Peacekeeping Research. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 63 (7). pp. 1595-1600. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002718821709
Gizelis, Theodora Ismene and Benson, Michelle (2019) Advancing the Frontier of Peacekeeping Research. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 63 (7). pp. 1595-1600. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002718821709
Gizelis, Theodora Ismene and Benson, Michelle (2019) Advancing the Frontier of Peacekeeping Research. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 63 (7). pp. 1595-1600. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002718821709
Abstract
The impact of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping on conflict has received a sustained amount of attention in the empirical literature. The advent of new data on UN peacekeeping and new temporal units of analysis have enabled researchers to expand the frontiers of peacekeeping research and undertake a more nuanced examination of peacekeeping effectiveness. In this special section, a series of articles examine how UN peacekeeping affects different types of violence within conflicts and leads to different types of peaceful outcomes. Factors such as the cultural affinity between peacekeepers and local communities, the size of peacekeeping operations and the specific composition of UN forces are shown to be important variables associated with lower levels of casualties and violence and also a higher likelihood of mediation and timely peaceful settlements in civil wars. In the aggregate, these articles suggest that robust peacekeeping is associated with better outcomes in many stages of conflict.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | international peacekeeping, civil wars, conflict management, conflict |
Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Government, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2018 11:17 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2022 13:53 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/23027 |
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