Better peacekeepers, better protection? Troop quality of United Nations peace operations and violence against civilians
Better peacekeepers, better protection? Troop quality of United Nations peace operations and violence against civilians
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DOI：
10.1177/0022343318785419
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发表时间：
2018-08
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Felix Haass;Nadine Ansorg
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作者：
Felix Haass;Nadine Ansorg
为什么规模相同的维持和平特派团在保护冲突中平民方面的效力各不相同？我们认为，从拥有高质量军队的国家派出大量军队的和平行动能够更好地威慑国家和非国家行为者的暴力，并在冲突地区建立缓冲区，能够更好地到达偏远地区，并具有监督和平协议执行情况的优越能力--包括部队派遣国的外交压力。这些作战优势使他们能够更好地保护平民。我们将部队派遣国的军事开支数据与维和行动组成的月度数据结合在一起，创建了联合国维和行动部队平均质量的替代指标。1991年至2010年期间非洲和亚洲冲突的大样本的统计证据支持我们的论点。
Why do similarly sized peacekeeping missions vary in their effectiveness to protect civilians in conflicts? We argue that peace operations with a large share of troops from countries with high-quality militaries are better able to deter violence from state and non-state actors and create buffer zones within conflict areas, can better reach remote locations, and have superior capabilities – including diplomatic pressure by troop contributing countries – to monitor the implementation of peace agreements. These operational advantages enable them to better protect civilians. Combining data from military expenditures of troop contributing countries together with monthly data on the composition of peace operations, we create a proxy indicator for the average troop quality of UN PKOs. Statistical evidence from an extended sample of conflicts in Africa and Asia between 1991 and 2010 supports our argument.