Networks of Influence and Support in Peace Operations

联合国和平行动部署在世界上一些最困难的环境中，负责将饱受战争蹂躏的国家转变为能够保持和平的国家。国际维持和平奖学金侧重于军事维和人员的影响，得出了相对一致的结论：部署国际维和人员，特别是在有全面和平协定的情况下，减少了内战复发的可能性。为了研究建设和平行动中这种组织多样性对和平与安全成果的影响，参与者创建了一个新的建设和平行为体及其相互网络数据集。它们还以三个国家的深入案例研究补充了数据集。该项目有几个更广泛的影响：（1）它有助于更好地理解援助与冲突的关系，支持更好的援助政策，并对美国国家安全政策产生重要影响，（2）它通过包括来自代表性不足的人口的研究生和本科生研究助理，增加了国际关系奖学金的多样性，（3）通过两个讲习班向国际捐助者和政府间组织网络传播调查结果。 和平行动指标确定了参与当代联合国和平行动的干预国际行为体，以及这些行为体之间可能影响和平行动目标成败的联系。参与者利用这些“影响力和支持网络”来审查参与建设和平活动的更广泛的行为体如何影响受冲突影响国家的人的安全的重要成果。项目执行人采用混合方法（定性案例研究、社会网络和大N定量分析），创建了一个关于联合国实体、国际非政府组织、双边和多边捐助者之间的存在和正式联系的新数据集，通过半结构化访谈捐助者和国际非政府组织进行了三个详细的案例研究，并分析了二手资料。这项研究的结果有助于内战干预，维持和平，并通过占参与国际维持和平和建设和平努力的行为体的异质性建设和平的文献。此外，参与者之间的网络以及与东道国国内行为者的网络有助于影响和平与安全成果。这种精细的，以行为者为中心的分析将使维持和平和建设和平的文献与越来越多的以行为者为中心的内战动态奖学金相结合。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

United Nations (UN) peace operations are deployed to some of the most difficult environments in the world, charged with transforming war-torn states into countries that can sustain peace. Focusing on the effect of military peacekeepers, international peacekeeping scholarship has produced relatively consistent findings: the deployment of international peacekeepers, particularly in contexts where there is a comprehensive peace agreement, reduces the likelihood of civil war recurrence. To examine the effect of this organizational diversity within peacebuilding operations on peace and security outcomes, the PIs create a new dataset of peacebuilding actors and their networks with one another. They also complement the dataset with in-depth case studies in three countries. The project has several broader impacts: (1) it contributes to an improved understanding of the aid-conflict relationship, supporting better aid policy and having an important impact on US national security policy, (2) it increases diversity in international relations scholarship by including graduate and undergraduate research assistants from underrepresented populations, and (3) it disseminates findings through two workshops to a network of international donors and intergovernmental organizations. The PIs identify the intervening international actors involved in contemporary UN peace operations, as well as the connections between these actors that are likely shape the success and failure of peace operation objectives. The PIs use these "networks of influence and support" to examine how the broader set of actors involved in peacebuilding activities affects important outcomes for human security in conflict-affected states. Using a mixed methods approach (qualitative case studies, social network and large-N quantitative analysis) the PIs create a new dataset on the presence and formal connections between UN entities, INGOs, bilateral and multilateral donors, perform three detailed case studies with semi-structured interviews donors and INGO, and analyze secondary source information. The findings from this research contributes to the literature on civil war interventions, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding by accounting for the heterogeneity of actors involved in international peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts. Furthermore, the PIs contributes to how these networks among them and with domestic actors in the host country influence peace and security outcomes. This fine-grained, actor-focused analysis will enable the peacekeeping and peacebuilding literature to engage with the increasingly actor-centric scholarship on dynamics of civil wars.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.