In: Oksamytna, Kseniya, and Magnus Lundgren. "Decorating the 'Christmas Tree': The UN Security Council and the Secretariat's Recommendations on Peacekeeping Operations." Global Governance 27:2, 226-250.
This study explores how the duration of missions affects the participation of women in United Nations (UN) peace operations. I argue that women are less likely to be deployed in the early stages of missions because new missions are associated with high levels of operational uncertainty, which is ultimately a type of risk. Instead, women's participation will increase over time as the uncertainty decreases and the operating environment becomes more predictable. In an extended analysis, I also explore if the level of gender equality in a troop contributing country affects the decision to deploy women to the early phases of missions. Applying a large-N approach, I study the proportion of women in military contributions to UN peace operations between 2009 and 2015. Using a set of multilevel mixed-effects generalized linear models, the main argument find empirical support. However, when the robustness of the findings is challenged, there is indication that there could be additional factors that affect operational uncertainty and the perceived risk associated with an operating environment. The result of the extended analysis indicate that more gender equal countries are more prone to deploy larger proportions of female military personnel, regardless of when the deployment takes place.
In: Di Salvatore, Jessica, Magnus Lundgren, Kseniya Oksamytna, and Hannah M. Smidt. "Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset." Journal of Conflict Resolution, (March 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027211068897.
In: Zambakari, Christopher, Matthew Edwards, and Steve Des Georges, eds. 2019. Peacemaking and Peace Agreements in South Sudan with an Introduction by Christopher Zambakari. Vol. 1, Spring Special Issue. Phoenix, Arizona: The Zambakari Advisory.
In: G. Le Moli, Prosecuting Peacekeepers for International Crimes, (2018) in Ida Caracciolo and Umberto Montuoro (eds.), New Models of Peacekeeping Security and Protection of Human Rights. The Role of the UN and Regional Organizations (Giappichelli Editore), 165-183
In: 'The Cultural Dimension of Peace Operations: Peacekeeping and Cultural Property' in Andrew H Campbell (Ed) Global Leadership Initiatives for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding (2018, Igi Global)
In: Zartsdahl , P H 2018 , ' Civil–military synergies in EU crisis response and peacebuilding : a framework for analysis ' , Global Affairs , vol. 4 , no. 2-3 , pp. 197-213 . https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2018.1532769
Responding to New Wars, international organizations have faced challenges in increasing synergies between civilian and military instruments. This paper analyses civil-military synergies as a logical framework outcome of coordination and asks to what degree activities of civil-military coordination in EU external action has led to synergies on the ground. It provides a conceptual framework tackling three distinct conceptual challenges; (1) providing a typology of interfaces to articulate civil-military research scope(s), (2) delimiting the "civil-military", and (3) defining civil-military synergy vis-á-vis coordination. The framework is applied in a case study of EU engagements under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) focusing on EU's operational level during the execution phase. It finds that EU's siloed command structure hampers coordination between instruments to a degree where civil-military synergies are more common with external partners than between CSDP instruments, and that open mandates to coordinate with "relevant actors" are vulnerable to personal interpretations. ; Responding to New Wars, international organizations have faced challenges in increasing synergies between civilian and military instruments. This paper analyses civil-military synergies as a logical framework outcome of coordination and asks to what degree activities of civil-military coordination in EU external action has led to synergies on the ground. It provides a conceptual framework tackling three distinct conceptual challenges; (1) providing a typology of interfaces to articulate civil-military research scope(s), (2) delimiting the "civil-military", and (3) defining civil-military synergy vis-á-vis coordination. The framework is applied in a case study of EU engagements under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) focusing on EU's operational level during the execution phase. It finds that EU's siloed command structure hampers coordination between instruments to a degree where civil-military synergies are more common with external partners than between CSDP instruments, and that open mandates to coordinate with "relevant actors" are vulnerable to personal interpretations.