Dr. Nsia's article Robust Peacekeeping? - Panacea for Human Rights Violations has just been published in the highly esteemed Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Vol. 18, No. 2 Fall 2011, pages 263-290. Click on the link above to read the full article.
The paper examines the emerging conviction that United Nations robust peacekeeping- a strong and forceful peacekeeping force- works better than UN traditional peacekeeping mechanism in reducing human rights violation, specifically, civilian killing, in areas of deployment. Using both negative binomial and logit regression statistical models, the paper finds that United Nations robust peacekeeping lowers civilian killings. Mission size is also associated with lower numbers of civilian killings. Great power participation, peacekeeper diversity and affinity with the host state, along with identity conflicts and at least proto-democratic status of the host state appear to be harbingers of potentially higher deliberate civilian killing total. The findings have both theoretical and policy implications in the field of peacekeeping.
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