This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to
reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones …

Peace operations are now a principal tool for managing armed conflict and building world
peace. The fully revised, expanded and updated second edition of Understanding …

In this article, we introduce the Geocoded Peacekeeping Operations (Geo-PKO) dataset,
which presents new data on subnational peacekeeping deployment for all UN missions to …

Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition
in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the …

In the past two decades, regional organizations and coalitions of states have deployed more
peace operations than the UN. Yet most quantitative studies of peacekeeping effectiveness …

Social scientists using statistical models and more qualitative techniques frequently employ
divergent approaches to thinking about causality. Statistical methodologies tend to draw on …

Peacekeeping has been one of the main conflict management tools used by the
international community to restore or safeguard peace and security. Since 1948, the United …

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 …

Based on spatial panel regressions for 1990–2012, this article draws publicness differences
between peacekeeping personnel contributions to UN and non-UN peacekeeping …

Since the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1325 (2000), which is
referenced in most of the mandates for peacekeeping authorizations and renewals as of its …