A Study of Developing a Database for Evaluating United Nations Peace Operations

本研究项目的目的是建立一个数据库，以评价1945年至2006年期间部署的联合国和平行动。数据库应包含“冲突生命周期指标”和“联合国和平行动指标”，以便在冲突的实际生命周期内对不同的联合国和平行动进行动态分析。在研究项目期间，研究者主要处理两个研究议程。首先，通过全面回顾国际关系中冲突管理和解决领域的理论辩论，开展了评估联合国和平行动的综合数据库的筹备工作。在此过程中，特别关注如何认识冲突结果与联合国和平行动绩效之间的因果关系。其次，通过对乌普萨拉大学冲突数据项目、国际危机行为项目和战争相关项目等现有主要战争/冲突数据库的审查，进行实证工作，编制冲突生命周期指标和联合国和平行动指标。

The purpose of this research project is to develop a database for evaluating United Nations peace operations deployed during the period between 1945 and 2006. The database should contains "conflict life-cycle indicator" and "UN peace operation indicator" to allow for dynamic analysis of the divergent UN peace operations within the actual life-cycle of conflicts. During the research project period, two research agendas were mainly dealt with by the researcher. Firstly, preparatory works were conducted to develop an integrated database for evaluating UN peace operations through the comprehensive review of theoretical debates in conflict management and resolution fields in International Relations. In so doing, special focus is being placed on the question of how to recognize the causal relationships between conflict outcome and performance of UN peace operations. Secondly empirical works were conducted to compile both conflict life-cycle indicators and UN peace operation indicators through the examination of existing major war/conflict databases such as Uppsala University's Conflict Data Projects, International Crisis Behavior Project and Correlates of War Project.