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Just Different Hats? Comparing UN and Non-UN Peacekeeping

open access: yes, 2020
In the past two decades, regional organizations and coalitions of states have deployed more peace operations than the UN. Yet most quantitative studies of peacekeeping effectiveness focus on UN peacekeeping exclusively, a decision owed to data ...
Bara, Corinne,   +3 more
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Integrating and Expanding Evaluation Criteria: Enhancing Disaster Management Through the Triple Nexus Approach

open access: yesJournal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines the integration and expansion of evaluation criteria across humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding efforts within the Triple Nexus framework. Using institutional ethnography, literature review, and document analysis, the research assesses the effectiveness of current evaluation practices, highlighting gaps and ...
Christina Plesner Volkdal
wiley   +1 more source

Green Defence in the Racial‐Colonial Anthropocene: Militarized Twin Transitions and the Necropolitics of ‘Conflict‐Free’ Mineral Securitization in Eastern Congo

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article argues that powerful Western militaries are central architects of the necropolitics underpinning contemporary green and digital transitions. As climate change is increasingly framed as a security threat, NATO, the United States and the European Union pursue climate‐resilient defence infrastructures whose material foundations ...
Ralph Tafon
wiley   +1 more source

UN’s Use of Private Military and Security Companies in Peacekeeping Operations

open access: yesPolitikon, 2016
PMSCs are not only hired by states, the UN makes use of PMSCs as well. Due to the UN member states’ passivity there has not been a single peacekeeping operation without the involvement of PMSCs since 1990. But is there a legal basis?
Tina Linti
doaj   +1 more source

Envisioning Liberal Internationalism: Mapping and the League of Nations' Geographical Department

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that mapping was a foundational technology through which the idea of liberal internationalism was actively produced. Focusing on the League of Nations' Geographical Department, we show how a new sphere of international challenges was constituted where none had previously existed or been widely agreed upon.
Jake Hodder, Philip Jagessar
wiley   +1 more source

Twenty Years Wandering (But Not in the Desert): Brazil’s 1967-1989 absence from UN peacekeeping

open access: yesBrasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2015
Since the early 1990s, Brazilian officials have often underlined the country’s role as a traditional contributor of troops to peacekeeping operations, beginning with participation in UNEF I, in 1957. However, for the two decades from 1967 to 1989, Brazil
Eduardo Uziel, João Vargas
doaj   +3 more sources

Searching for a Theory of International Peacekeeping

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations, 2007
This article offers a critical review of the few existing scholarly attempts to conceptualize and theorize the study of peacekeeping operations. It reveals that even though the study of peacekeeping operations is burgeoning, most of the available ...
Oldřich Bureš
doaj  

Post‐Humanitarian Militarism and the End of Development: Global Inequality, Security, and the Ethics of Post‐Imperial Solidarity

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 376-387, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT. AN ANALYSIS OF CHALLENGES, CHANGES IN COMMAND ACTION AND TRAINING NEEDS [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Defense Resources Management, 2015
The aim of this paper is to uncover emerging challenges of peacekeeping operations, determine the changes in command actions and its effects on the professional preparation of commanders by analyzing experiences of military officers.
Ünsal SIĞRI, Ufuk BAŞAR
doaj  

Indonesian Female Peacekeepers in The United Nations Peacekeeping Mission

open access: yesJurnal Pertahanan: Media Informasi tentang Kajian dan Strategi Pertahanan yang Mengedepankan Identity, Nasionalism & Integrity, 2017
As peacekeeping has evolved to encompass a broader humanitarian approach, women personels have become increasingly part of the peacekeeping family. The UN has called for more deployment of female peacekeepers to enhance the overall “holistic” approach to
Leonard F. Hutabarat
doaj   +1 more source

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