Networks of Influence and Support in Peace Operations

联合国维和行动被部署到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维持和平的国家。关注军事维和人员的影响，国际维和奖学金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，减少了内战再次发生的可能性。为了检查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，项目负责人创建了一个新的建设和平行动者及其相互网络数据集。它们还通过对三个国家的深入案例研究来补充数据集。该项目有几个更广泛的影响：(1)它有助于提高对援助-冲突关系的理解，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)它增加了国际关系奖学金的多样性，包括来自代表性不足人群的研究生和本科生研究助理；(3)它通过两个研讨会向国际捐助者和政府间组织网络传播研究结果。pi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的联系，这些行为体可能会影响和平行动目标的成败。政策评价机构利用这些“影响和支持网络”，审查参与建设和平活动的更广泛行为体如何影响受冲突影响国家人类安全的重要成果。使用混合方法（定性案例研究，社会网络和大n定量分析），pi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，并分析了二手来源信息。本研究的结果通过解释参与国际维和和建设和平努力的行动者的异质性，为内战干预、维和和建设和平的文献做出了贡献。此外，pi还有助于这些网络在他们之间以及与东道国的国内行动者一起影响和平与安全成果。这种细致的、以行动者为中心的分析将使维和和建设和平文献能够与日益以行动者为中心的内战动态研究相结合。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.