Advancing the Frontier of Peacekeeping Research

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6284764
AutoresTheodora-Ismene Gizelis (0000-0002-3090-6845, University of Essex), Michelle Benson (0000-0001-9479-6481, Department of Political Science, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume63
Fascículo7
Páginas1595-1600
Data de publicação2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022002718821709
OpenAlexW2912724989
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas25

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

Conflict resolution · Criminology · Frontier · Geography · Human settlement · Mediation · Peacekeeping · Political science · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration