Political Initiatives and Peacekeeping: Assessing Multiple UN Conflict Resolution Tools

The United Nations Peacemaking Initiative (UNPI) Data Project compiles data on the full spectrum of UN institutions aimed at conflict prevention and crisis management, mediation, peacekeeping and –building. The ultimate aim of the project is to provide an empirical basis to assess the relative contributions of various UN instruments that attempt to manage violent conflict. In particular, the data seeks to provide researchers the opportunity to study possible selection bias in their implementation, and any effects of how the different instruments are sequenced or applied simultaneously; in short in what ways the various instruments are complements or substitutes.