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Peace and Conflict Studies

Journal

2011

Human rights violations

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Robust Peacekeeping? Panacea For Human Rights Violations, Kofi Nsia-Pepra Nov 2011

Robust Peacekeeping? Panacea For Human Rights Violations, Kofi Nsia-Pepra

Peace and Conflict Studies

This paper examines the conviction that robust peacekeeping—a strong and forceful peacekeeping force—works better than traditional UN peacekeeping mechanisms in reducing human rights violations, specifically, civilian killing, in areas of deployment. I seek to analyze both the operational and internal characteristics of UN peacekeeping operations in an effort to understand the hindrances to achieving the objective of protecting human rights. Specifically, the study examines the contributions of key structural variables, including the mission type, weapon type, rules of engagement, mission strength, and major power participation controlling for other intervening variables using negative binomial and logit regression models. The empirical results …


Volume 18, Number 2 (Fall 2011), Peace And Conflict Studies Nov 2011

Volume 18, Number 2 (Fall 2011), Peace And Conflict Studies

Peace and Conflict Studies

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