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The Impact of Peacekeeping Missions on Women’s Empowerment

Political research quarterly, 2023
What effect do peacekeeping operations (PKOs) have on women’s empowerment? The gendered consequences of peacekeeping have long been an issue of contention.
S. Blanton   +2 more
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Strategic Deployment of UN Political Missions to Replace UN Peacekeeping Operations: The Demand and Supply Sides of Transition Logic

International Peacekeeping, 2022
Although United Nations peacekeeping operations (UN PKOs) produce positive outcomes for peace, some missions are strategically replaced by cheaper and smaller UN political missions (PMs).
Wakako Maekawa
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A Strategy to Decarbonize Civil Aviation: A phased innovation approach to hydrogen technologies

IEEE Electrification Magazine, 2022
Greening aviation is key to our global future. However, reducing aircraft operations would severely impact worldwide economics. Therefore, it is imperative that radical and green propulsion alternatives be developed quickly. The most likely approaches to
J. Huete   +3 more
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DEVS-Based Simulation for Search and Rescue Missions Involving Multiple UAVS

Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference, 2021
Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for searching for targets is a complex problem whose applications range from military operations (e.g. targets localization or border surveillance) to civil missions (e.g. mountain or sea rescue). Simulations of real-
J. B. Bordón-Ruiz   +3 more
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The Promise of Peacekeeping: Protecting Civilians in Civil Wars

International Organization, 2020
Do peacekeepers protect civilians in civil conflict? Securing civilian safety is a key objective of contemporary peacekeeping missions, yet whether these efforts actually make a difference on the ground is widely debated in large part because of ...
A. Carnegie, Christoph Mikulaschek
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Pinioning the Peacekeepers: Sovereignty, Host-State Resistance against Peacekeeping Missions, and Violence against Civilians

, 2020
Why and how do host-states resist contemporary peacekeeping missions? This article puts forward the argument that host-state resistance against peacekeepers is a strategy to balance challenges to the internal and external faces of a civil war state's ...
Allard Duursma
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Earwitnesses and Transparent Conduits of Voice: On the Labor of Field Interpreters for UN Missions

Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 2020
:This essay considers the labor of field interpreters who worked for the UN during two critical missions in Nepal—the UN High Commission of Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) during and after the Maoist civil war ...
Laura Kunreuther
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Automation Kit for Dual-Mode Military Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Surveillance Missions

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 2020
The field of autonomous vehicles is an area of great importance nowadays among Intelligent Transport Systems. These autonomous vehicles must meet high standards of robustness, safety and protection to make autonomous driving safer than human driving ...
J. Naranjo   +3 more
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Civil society and the civilizing mission

2020
This chapter starts with the liberal conception of a "global civil society". The globalization of the concept of civil society is one aspect of the emergent global civil society, for it shows how civil society ideas and languages and institutions are spreading beyond their place of origin into new contexts.
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