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The effectiveness of mediation and peacekeeping for ending conflict
Journal of Peace Research, 2021 Mediation and peacekeeping are commonly used tools to manage conflict. To what extent are they complementary and effective instruments for ending violent conflicts?
Govinda Clayton, Han Dorussen
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Violent Conflicts and Civil Strife in West Africa: Causes, Challenges and Prospects
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2014 The advent of intra-state conflicts or ‘new wars’ in West Africa has brought many of its economies to the brink of collapse, creating humanitarian casualties and concerns.
Nancy Annan
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ECOWAS as a Provider of Peacekeeping Assistance in Africa [PDF]
Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук, 2022 This article examines the peacekeeping experience of the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS). It traces the entire evolution of the union in peacekeeping – from the first missions in Liberia and Sierra Leone to the operation in the ...
IUTIAEVA Irina Romanovna
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Robust Peacekeeping—Not Aggressive Peacekeeping [PDF]
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting, 2018 Since 1999, in the aftermath of the tragic failures in Rwanda and Srebrenica, the UN Security Council (UNSC) has readily and consistently entrusted UN peacekeeping operations (UNPKOs) with robust mandates and the authority to use force beyond self-defense for the protection of ...
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UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars
American Journal of Political Science, 2021 Civil wars affect the economic conditions of households by disrupting economic transactions and harming their psychological well-being. To restore basic conditions for local economic recovery in conflict-torn regions, the international community has only
Vincenzo Bove +2 more
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Next Generation Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2015 The process of disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating ex-soldiers at conflict’s end is as old as war itself. The results of these efforts are far from even.
Robert Muggah, Chris O'Donnell
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Peacekeeping Experiences as Triggers of Introspection in the Ghanaian Military Barracks
Africa Spectrum, 2020 African political elites have been forthcoming with military support for United Nations peacekeeping missions, contributing substantially to these missions’ workforce.
Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum
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Mapping blue helmets: Introducing the Geocoded Peacekeeping Operations (Geo-PKO) dataset
Journal of Peace Research, 2020 In this article, we introduce the Geocoded Peacekeeping Operations (Geo-PKO) dataset, which presents new data on subnational peacekeeping deployment for all UN missions to Africa, 1994–2014.
Deniz Cil +3 more
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Proceedings of the 7th Augmented Human International Conference 2016, 2016 Noise pollution can be very problematic especially in shared-living facilities such as student dormitories. After conducting interviews with nine students, we found that students are usually not aware of the level of noise pollution they are producing as part of their everyday activities.
Henrik Lanng +4 more
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Developing peace: the evolution of development goals and activities in United Nations peacekeeping
Oxford Development Studies, 2021 Peacekeeping and development assistance are two of the United Nations’ (UN) defining activities. While there have been extensive studies of UN engagement in each of these areas, respectively, less attention has been given to the relationship between ...
J. Gledhill +2 more
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