Short-term and long-term effects of United Nations peace operations
In: Policy research working paper 4207
In: Post-conflict transitions working paper 11
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In: Policy research working paper 4207
In: Post-conflict transitions working paper 11
In: Strategies of Peace, S. 141-164
In: The World Bank Economic Review, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 9-32
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In an earlier study Doyle and Sambanis (2000) [Doyle, Michael W., and Nicholas Sambanis. 2000. "International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis." American Political Science Review 94(4):779–801.] showed that United Nations (UN) peace operations have made positive contributions to peacebuilding in the short term, helping parties implement peace agreements. But are the effects of UN peace operations lasting? Because the UN cannot fight wars, such operations should not be used to enforce a peace. Peacekeeping operations contribute more to the quality of the peace—that is, to securing more than the mere absence of war—than to its duration, because the effects of such operations dissipate over time. For peace to be self-sustaining, countries must develop institutions and policies that generate economic growth. UN peacebuilding lacks a strategy for fostering self-sustaining economic growth that could connect increased participation with sustainable peace. The international community would benefit from an evolution that uses economic reforms to plug the gap between peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance on the one hand and development on the other.
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In: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4207
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In: Perspectives on politics, Band 2, Heft 2
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 259-279
ISSN: 1537-5927
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In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 48, Heft 6, S. 814-858
ISSN: 0022-0027, 0731-4086
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In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 48, Heft 6, S. 814-858
ISSN: 1552-8766
The empirical literature on civil war has seen tremendous growth because of the compilation of quantitative data sets, but there is no consensus on the measurement of civil war. This increases the risk of making inferences from unstable empirical results. Without ad hoc rules to code its start and end and differentiate it from other violence, it is difficult, if not impossible, to define and measure civil war. A wide range of variation in parameter estimates makes accurate predictions of war onset difficult, and differences in empirical results are greater with respect to war continuation.
In: Defence & peace economics, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 215-243
ISSN: 1476-8267
In: Defence and peace economics, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 215-243
ISSN: 1024-2694
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In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 45, Heft 3, S. 259-282
ISSN: 1552-8766
A booming quantitative literature on large-scale political violence has identified important economic and political determinants of civil war. That literature has treated civil war as an aggregate category and has not considered if identity (ethnic/religious) wars have different causes than nonidentity wars. The author argues that this is an important distinction and that identity wars are due predominantly to political grievance rather than lack of economic opportunity. Ethnic heterogeneity is also associated differently with identity than nonidentity wars. Some systemic variables are also important determinants of civil war, and these have been neglected in the existing literature. An important new result is that living in a bad neighborhood, with undemocratic neighbors or neighbors at war, significantly increases a country's risk of experiencing ethnic civil war.
In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 45, Heft 3, S. 259-282
ISSN: 0022-0027, 0731-4086
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In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 52, Heft 4, S. 437-483
ISSN: 1086-3338
Theorists of ethnic conflict have argued that the physical separation of warring ethnic groups may be the only possible solution to civil war. They argue that without territorial partition and, if necessary, forced population movements the war cannot end and genocide is likely. Other scholars have counterargued that partition only replaces internal war with international war, that it creates undemocratic successor states, and that it generates tremendous human suffering. This debate has so far been informed by very few important case studies. This article uses a new data set on civil wars to identify the main determinants of war-related partitions and estimate their impact on democratization, on the probability that war will recur, and on low-level ethnic violence. This is the first large-N quantitative analysis of this topic, testing the propositions of partition theory and weighing heavily on the side of its critics. Most assertions of partition theorists fail to pass rigorous empirical tests. The article also identifies some determinants of democratization after civil war, as well as the determinants of recurring ethnic violence. These empirical findings are used to formulate an alternative proposal for ending ethnic violence.
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 52, Heft 4, S. 437-483
ISSN: 0043-8871
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