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Kinds of Blue: Diversity in UN Peacekeeping Missions and Civilian Protection

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  • Bove, Vincenzo
  • Ruggeri, Andrea

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For a given number of troops in a peace operation, is it advisable to have soldiers from a single country, or should the UN recruit peacekeepers from a variety of donor countries? Since 1990, the number of contributors to peace operations has grown threefold, and most operations have carried the mandate to protect civilians. This article explores the effect of diversity in the composition of a mission, measured by fractionalization and polarization indices, on its performance in protecting civilians in Africa in the period 1991–2008. It finds that mission diversity decreases the level of violence against civilians, a result that holds when geographic and linguistic distances between countries are considered.

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  • Bove, Vincenzo & Ruggeri, Andrea, 2016. "Kinds of Blue: Diversity in UN Peacekeeping Missions and Civilian Protection," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 46(3), pages 681-700, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:46:y:2016:i:03:p:681-700_00
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    1. Pellumb Kelmendi & Andrew Radin, 2018. "UNsatisfied? Public Support for Postconflict International Missions," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 62(5), pages 983-1011, May.
    2. Michele Gazzola & Torsten Templin & Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis, 2020. "Measuring Diversity in Multilingual Communication," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 147(2), pages 545-566, January.
    3. Magnus Lundgren & Kseniya Oksamytna & Vincenzo Bove, 2022. "Politics or Performance? Leadership Accountability in UN Peacekeeping," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 66(1), pages 32-60, January.
    4. Abdiwahid Ali Ahmed & Dr. Lecturer Başak özoral, 2020. "The Role of Civil Society in Peace Building in Somalia," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 4(11), pages 295-302, November.
    5. Deniz Cil & Hanne Fjelde & Lisa Hultman & Desirée Nilsson, 2020. "Mapping blue helmets: Introducing the Geocoded Peacekeeping Operations (Geo-PKO) dataset," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 57(2), pages 360-370, March.
    6. Vincenzo Bove & Leandro Elia, 2018. "Economic Development in Peacekeeping Host Countries," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group, vol. 64(4), pages 712-728.
    7. Felix Haass & Nadine Ansorg, 2018. "Better peacekeepers, better protection? Troop quality of United Nations peace operations and violence against civilians," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 55(6), pages 742-758, November.
    8. Sara Lindberg Bromley, 2018. "Introducing the UCDP Peacemakers at Risk dataset, sub-Saharan Africa, 1989–2009," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 55(1), pages 122-131, January.
    9. Todd Sandler, 2017. "International Peacekeeping Operations," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 61(9), pages 1875-1897, October.

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