Kinds of Blue
Diversity in UN Peacekeeping Missions and Civilian Protection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5801263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincenzo Bove (0000-0001-7398-9049, University of Oxford), Andrea Ruggeri (0000-0001-9750-6099, University of Oxford) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 681-700 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007123415000034 |
| OpenAlex | W2128649701 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 66 |
| References cited | 34 |
For a given number of troops in a peace operation, is it advisable to have soldiers from a single country, or should the UN recruit peacekeepers from a variety of donor countries? Since 1990, the number of contributors to peace operations has grown threefold, and most operations have carried the mandate to protect civilians. This article explores the effect of diversity in the composition of a mission, measured by fractionalization and polarization indices, on its performance in protecting civilians in Africa in the period 1991-2008. It finds that mission diversity decreases the level of violence against civilians, a result that holds when geographic and linguistic distances between countries are considered
Fractionalization · Mandate · Peacekeeping · International Development and Aid · Political Conflict and Governance · Religion, Society, and Development
United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism
South Asia
The Logic of International Response to Anti-Violence and Sexual Integrity Agenda in Violent Conflict
Public Support for UN Missions and Attacks on Peacekeepers
What Post Covid-19? Avoiding a «Twenty-first Century General Crisis»
Composing Peace
Power in Peacekeeping
Help is close at hand? Proximity and the effectiveness of peacekeepers
Stability and Stability Operations
Use of Force to Protect Civilians in United Nations Peacekeeping
A Quarter of a Century of Civilian Protection
Distractions, Distortions and Dilemmas
Who Should Intervene
Just Different Hats? Comparing UN and Non-UN Peacekeeping
Do UN Missions Have an Expiration Date? Ideational Commitment to UN Peacekeeping and the Length of Missions
The known knowns and known unknowns of peacekeeping data
Downsizing in UN Peacekeeping
The European Union’s Role in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Who Can Go First? Evidence From UN PKOs in Africa in 1990-2016
Reflection on Labour Hierarchies in Peacekeeping
Protection Trinity
National Staff and the Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping
Once and Future Peacemakers
Nationality, Gender, and Deployments at the Local Level
UN Peacekeeping at 75
UN Peacekeeping and Forced Displacement in South Sudan
Understanding Coherence in UN Peacekeeping
Election Accomplished
South East Asian powers and contributions to peacekeeping operations
Do non-UN peacekeeping operations work in conjunction with UN peacekeeping troops to reduce civilian casualties
UN Troop Deployment and Preventing Violence Against Civilians in Darfur
Troop-providers' ideational commitment to UN peacekeeping and effectiveness
Tracing the Footsteps of Peace
Diplomatic Statements and the Strategic Use of Terrorism in Civil Wars
Security assistance to Africa
Learning to Fight Together
Racial Inequality in War
U.N. Peacekeeping Forces and the Demand for Sex Trafficking
Humanitarian Intervention and Burden-Sharing Justice
Peacekeeping Effectiveness and Blue Helmets’ Distance from Locals
UN Peacekeeping and Protection from Sexual Violence
Politics or Performance? Leadership Accountability in UN Peacekeeping
International Peacekeeping Operations
UNsatisfied? Public Support for Postconflict International Missions
What is in a Mandate? Introducing the UN Peace Mission Mandates Dataset
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness
Can UN Peacekeeping Promote Environmental Quality
Tangled up in Blue
Making Peace or Preventing It? UN Peacekeeping, Terrorism, and Civil War Negotiations
Protection Through Presence
Who's There? Election Observer Identity and the Local Credibility of Elections
Segregation, Integration, and Death
Who should pay for humanitarian intervention
How Does International Intervention Work to Secure Peace Settlements After Civil Conflicts
Obstacle to Peace? Ethnic Geography and Effectiveness of Peacekeeping
The Extraordinary Relationship between Peacekeeping and Peace
On the Frontline Every Day? Subnational Deployment of United Nations Peacekeepers
Protecting the Vote? Peacekeeping Presence and the Risk of Electoral Violence
Quick. But Impactful? United Nations Quick Impact Projects and Violence against Civilians in Civil War
Implementation in practice
Meaning making in peacekeeping missions
Mapping blue helmets
Buying blue helmets
Better peacekeepers, better protection? Troop quality of United Nations peace operations and violence against civilians
Introducing the UCDP Peacemakers at Risk dataset, sub-Saharan Africa, 1989-2009
Measuring Diversity in Multilingual Communication
The Effects of Team Diversity on Team Outcomes
Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution
Cultural diversity and economic growth
Fractionalization
Veto Players
On the Measurement of Polarization
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
Native language, spoken language, translation and trade
Culture and Interoperability in Integrated Missions
UN Peacekeeping and the International Private Military and Security Industry
Emerging lessons from the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Selected To Go Where Murderers Lurk
United Nations peacekeeping personnel commitments, 1990–2011
Ethnic diversity and economic development
Globalisation and the Market for Team‐Mates
Peacekeeping and the Contagion of Armed Conflict
Ethnicity, Political Systems, and Civil Wars
Managing Mistrust
Winning the Peace Locally
Veto Players and Civil War Duration
United Nations Peacekeeping and Civilian Protection in Civil War
Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace? International Intervention and the Duration of Peace After Civil War
Supplying peace
One-Sided Violence Against Civilians in War
Measuring Space
International Peacebuilding
The Measurement of Linguistic Diversity
Considering Casualties
| Unique citing works | 66 |
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| Citations per year | 6,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 66 |