Peacekeeping in the midst of war / Lisa Hultman, Jacob D. Kathman, Megan Shannon.
| Author/creator | Hultman, Lisa |
| Other author | Kathman, Jacob D. |
| Other author | Shannon, Megan. |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| Description | xii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Peacekeeping and the problem of civil war -- Measuring peacekeeping effectiveness -- Mechanisms of peacekeeping effectiveness -- Reducing battlefield violence -- Reducing violence against civilians -- Successes and failures in Côte d'Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of Congo -- Saving humanity from hell?. |
| Abstract | "Civil wars have caused tremendous human suffering in the last century, and the United Nations is often asked to send peacekeepers to stop ongoing violence. Yet despite being the most visible tool of international intervention, policymakers and scholars have little systematic knowledge about how well peacekeeping works. Peacekeeping in the Midst of War offers the most comprehensive analyses of peacekeeping on civil war violence to date. With unique data on different types of violence in civil wars around the world, Peacekeeping in the Midst of War offers a rigorous understanding of UN intervention by analysing both wars with and without UN peacekeeping efforts. It also directly measures the strength of UN missions in personnel capacity and constitution. Using large-n quantitative analyses, the book finds that UN peacekeeping missions with appropriately constituted force capacities mitigate violence in civil wars. The authors conclude by analyzing the broader context of UN intervention effectiveness, and conclude that peacekeeping is a more generally effective way to reduce the human suffering associated with civil war." -- Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019941435 |
| ISBN | 9780198845577 hardcover |
| ISBN | 019884557X hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |