Peacekeeping
Research at the Department related to the topic of peacekeeping.
Ending Atrocities: Third Party Interventions into Civil Wars
Project leader: Lisa Hultman
This project aims to explore the role of third parties in civil war, with a particular emphasis on evaluating a broad set of measures to end atrocities and violent conflicts with disastrous consequences for the civilian population.
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POLITICS OF PROTECTION: EXPLAINING INTERNATIONAL RESPONSES TO ATROCITIES
Project leader: Lisa Hultman
The recent decades have witnessed a normative change in the debate about international intervention in addressing war crimes and violence against civilians. There is often an expectation that the UN or other international actors should react when civilians are being harmed. This project focuses on these politics of protection. It explores the factors that determine when the international community decides to intervene to stop civilians from being harmed, and what form such interventions take.
Peacekeepers’ risk-exposure: Determinants of deliberate attacks and impacts for intervention efficacy
Project leader: Sara Lindberg Bromley
UN peacekeepers are widely viewed as being at growing risk of direct and deliberate violence. Concerns about the safety and security of peacekeepers have risen in recent years, but why peacekeepers become the targets of attack in the first place and with what impacts for mission efficacy remains poorly understood. This project develops and tests theory related to the determinants of attacks focusing on the conflict environment into which peacekeepers intervene, and examines the relationship between attacks and peacekeepers’ performance.
Peacemakers at Risk: Understanding Violence against Third Party Interveners
Project leader: Sara Lindberg Bromley
The UCDP Peacemakers at Risk (PAR) project tracks violence against peacekeepers to advance a nascent research field. The dataset records reported incidences of violence resulting in direct peacekeeping personnel fatalities, injuries and kidnappings and includes detailed information on the timing, location, outcomes and actors implicated is provided for each recorded event. This novel data allows researchers to develop and test new research questions related to the causes and consequences of violence involving peacekeepers.
Who targets the peacekeepers? New data and procedures to track perpetrators of violence against peacekeepers – A pilot study
Project leader: Sara Lindberg Bromley
Who targets peacekeepers? Concerns about the safety and security of peacekeepers have risen in recent years, yet limited attention has been devoted to tracking the specific armed actors that perpetrate violent attacks against peacekeepers in civil war contexts. Building on recent data collection efforts, the aim of this pilot project is to develop and test novel procedures for collecting and coding data on armed actors targeting peacekeepers, focusing on two UN peacekeeping contexts: Sudan and Mali.
THE CIVILIAN DIMENSION OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROMOTION
Project leader: Sabine Otto
United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations have become one of the most prominent responses to civil wars around the world. The role of civilian personnel and their activities have proliferated during the last two decades and become increasingly central, whereby the promotion of human rights is one of the core function of UN peacekeeping operations. Our knowledge, however, about the impact of civilian staff and activities on protecting human rights standards is inconclusive and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We explore whether and how the civilian components of UN peacekeeping operations improve human rights standards.