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Return from Peacekeeping: Mission Effects on Veterans, States, and Communities

维和归来：任务对退伍军人、国家和社区的影响

基本信息

批准号：
ES/S00579X/1
负责人：
Maggie Dwyer
金额：
$ 31.98万
依托单位：
University of Edinburgh
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS00579X%2F1
关键词：
Return Peacekeeping Mission Effects Veterans

项目摘要

The number of peacekeepers deployed to Africa has doubled over the last decade, with two-thirds of the over 100,000 deployed troops drawn from African militaries. Significant international resources, in the form of funding, equipment, and training are invested into preparing African soldiers for peacekeeping missions and supporting them while on deployment. Yet little is known about the effects of peacekeeping deployments on the thousands of soldiers that return home each year.Most empirical research on peacekeeping is focused on the peace operation, peacekeeping sites, and the conflict that the missions responds to. However, scholarly attention typically ends when soldiers return home and transition from peacekeeper back to a 'regular' soldier. Likewise, while there is focus on the broader civilian communities affected by military missions at the peacekeeping site, similar attention has not been given to the effects on the community that the peacekeepers come from. There have long been assumptions that involvement in peacekeeping missions will have a positive effect on individual soldiers and African militaries more broadly through increased training, new professional experiences, exposure to other foreign militaries, and added income. Yet, recent examples of revolts among returned peacekeepers challenge these assumptions. Empirical research which engages with returned peacekeepers is needed to further understand how deployment experiences can have varied long-term effects on individuals, communities, and military organizations. The project uses a multi-method approach including an in-depth series of qualitative interviews with peacekeepers, life histories, key informant interviews with military, government, and donor leadership and document/media analysis of relevant material related to provisions for returned peacekeepers. It will provide cross-country comparative analysis through three field research sites: Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Individuals participating in the first year will be re-interviewed approximately 2 years later to observe changes across time. The proposed methodology allows for the investigation of post-peacekeeping to move beyond a snapshot in time to envisage the experience as one which may have long-term effects. The three country comparison provides the opportunity to examine how different political environments and framings of peacekeeping may impact the expectations of the soldiers involved and their experiences upon their return home. It also allows the chance to explore military institutions with diverse experiences and former peacekeepers at various stages since their return from deployment.This project contributes to debates in several academic fields including Security Studies, African Studies, Comparative Politics, and Military Sociology. It will also engage directly with key practitioners and policy makers within the realm of peacekeeping in Africa through briefings of findings to decision-makers and a dissemination conference at the Kofi Annan Peacekeeping Training Center in Accra Ghana (with material from these events publicly available for those unable to attend). The project also stands to be of high interest to non-African policy-makers as the vast majority of the 6 billion USD spent annually on peacekeeping comes from states in the Global North. The research aims to explore whether new forms of support to peacekeepers are needed which extend beyond pre-deployment and deployment periods.

在过去十年中，部署到非洲的维和人员数量翻了一番，部署的10万多名部队中有三分之二来自非洲军队。大量国际资源，以资金、设备和培训的形式，投入到为非洲士兵执行维和任务做准备和在部署期间为他们提供支持。然而，人们对维和部署对每年返回家园的数千名士兵的影响知之甚少，大多数关于维和的实证研究都集中在和平行动、维和地点以及特派团应对的冲突上。然而，当士兵回家并从维和人员转变为“正规”士兵时，学术关注通常会结束。同样，虽然重点关注在维和地点受军事特派团影响的更广泛的平民社区，但对维和人员所在社区的影响却没有给予同样的关注。长期以来，人们一直认为，参与维和特派团将通过增加培训、新的专业经验、接触其他外国军队和增加收入，对士兵个人和非洲军队产生更广泛的积极影响。然而，最近返回的维和人员发生叛乱的例子对这些假设提出了质疑。需要对返回的维和人员进行实证研究，以进一步了解部署经验如何对个人、社区和军事组织产生各种长期影响。该项目采用多种方法，包括对维和人员进行一系列深入的定性访谈、生活史、与军方、政府和捐助方领导人进行的关键线人访谈，以及对与返回的维和人员的给养有关的材料进行文件/媒体分析。它将通过加纳、塞拉利昂和乌干达三个实地研究地点提供跨国比较分析。第一年参与的个人将在大约2年后重新接受采访，以观察随时间的变化。拟议的方法使对维持和平行动后的调查能够超越时间上的短暂印象，将经验视为可能产生长期影响的经验。三国比较提供了一个机会，可以审查不同的政治环境和维持和平框架如何影响有关士兵的期望及其回国后的经历。它还允许有机会探索具有不同经验的军事机构和前维和人员从部署返回后的各个阶段。该项目有助于几个学术领域的辩论，包括安全研究，非洲研究，比较政治学和军事社会学。它还将通过向决策者介绍调查结果和在加纳阿克拉的科菲安南维持和平培训中心举行宣传会议（向无法参加的人公开这些活动的材料），直接接触非洲维持和平领域的主要从业人员和决策者。非洲以外的决策者对该项目也很感兴趣，因为每年用于维和的60亿美元中绝大多数来自全球北方国家。该研究旨在探讨是否需要为维和人员提供超出部署前和部署期的新形式的支持。