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In: Forum innere Führung Bd. 30
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In: Bulletin / BICC, Bonn International Center for Conversion, Issue 51, p. 1-2
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In: Conflict management and peace science: CMPS ; journal of the Peace Science Society ; papers contributing to the scientific study of conflict and conflict analysis, Volume 29, Issue 2, p. 127-147
ISSN: 0738-8942
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In: Journal of peace research, Volume 48, Issue 6, p. 699-714
ISSN: 0022-3433
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In: Allgemeine schweizerische Militärzeitschrift: ASMZ, Volume 175, Issue 12, p. 4-11
ISSN: 0002-5925
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In: Defence and peace economics, Volume 17, Issue 5, p. 457-471
ISSN: 1024-2694
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In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Volume 46, Issue 5, p. 778-804
ISSN: 1547-7444
This paper examines the participation of human rights-abusing countries in UN peacekeeping operations. This seemingly growing occurrence raises questions given the UN's emphasis in recent decades on protecting the physical integrity of civilians. How extensive are the contributions of human rights-violators in UN peacekeeping operations? And, what explains this phenomenon? I posit that peacekeeping provision serves two important functions for human rights abusers. First, committing large numbers of peacekeeping personnel helps states to whitewash poor domestic human rights records. Second, by contributing to the provision of an underprovided public good, human rights abusers can extort the international community to prevent interference in their domestic activities. Analysis of data from 1991–2011 shows that human rights abusers make substantially greater contributions to peacekeeping operations, even when holding constant variables such as regime type and wealth. These findings have significant implications for the protection of human rights, both in states that host and contribute peacekeepers.
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In: International peacekeeping, Volume 21, Issue 5, p. 658-672
ISSN: 1353-3312
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In: International journal of peace studies, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 27-54
ISSN: 1085-7494
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In: SWP-Studie, 2011,4
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In: The RUSI journal: independent thinking on defence and security, Volume 150, Issue 1, p. 49-53
ISSN: 0307-1847
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Peace operations remain a principal tool for managing armed conflict and protecting civilians. The fully revised, expanded and updated third edition of Understanding Peacekeeping provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory, history, and politics of peace operations. Drawing on a dataset of nearly two hundred historical and contemporary missions, this book evaluates the changing characteristics of the contemporary international environment in which peace operations are deployed, the strategic purposes peace operations are intended to achieve, and the major challenges facing today's peacekeepers. All the chapters have been revised and updated, and five new chapters have been added – on stabilization, organized crime, exit strategies, force generation, and the use of force. Part 1 summarizes the central concepts and issues related to peace operations. Part 2 charts the historical development of peacekeeping, from 1945 through to 2020. Part 3 analyses the strategic purposes that United Nations and other peace operations are intended to achieve – namely, prevention, observation, assistance, enforcement, stabilization, and administration. Part 4 looks forward and examines the central challenges facing today's peacekeepers: force generation, the regionalization and privatization of peace operations, the use of force, civilian protection, gender issues, policing and organized crime, and exit strategies.
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In: International peacekeeping, Volume 16, Issue 2, p. 287-294
ISSN: 1353-3312
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In: International peacekeeping, Volume 12, Issue 4, p. 576-585
ISSN: 1353-3312
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