Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper investigates the bases on which peacekeeping performance is currently evaluated. I argue that evaluation of peace operations performance within the UN are heavily influenced by concepts and practices drawn from private sector business management and the “New Public Management” reform movement in public administration. These practices have become institutionalized within the public bureaucracy organizational field of which the United Nations secretariat and DPKO are a part, and their adoption is driven by institutional isomorphism. I argue that the focus of academic research on outcome performance and the process-focused practice of peacekeeping performance measurement within the UN are largely disconnected, inhibiting better understanding of IOP performance. The paper calls for integrating analysis of process-level and outcome-level performance by better specification of causal mechanisms through which bureaucratic processes are expected to produce desired outcomes.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: IThe study is based on emergent conviction that traditional peacekeeping has failed and robust peacekeeping- a strong and forceful peacekeeping force is a better option to reduce human rights violations (civilian killings as proxy) in civil conflicts. This paper examines the effect of robust peacekeeping on reducing human rights violation, specifically, civilian killing, in areas of deployment. I seek to analyze both the operational and internal characteristics of traditional peacekeeping operations in an effort to understand the hindrances to achieving the objective of protecting human rights in addition to stopping bloodshed and promoting political settlements. Specifically, my study is interested in determining the contributions of key structural variables, including the mission type, weapon type, rules of engagement, mission strength, major power participation and controlling for other intervening variables using negative binomial statistical model. The overall finding is that robust peacekeeping has no impact on civilian killings. Large mission force strength is associated lower numbers of civilian killings. Identity conflicts and mission contingents comprising troops with many diverse backgrounds are associated with higher numbers of civilian killings. The findings thus have both theoretical and policy implications in the field of peacekeeping.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The paper will trace the new culture developed in the UN after the end of the Cold War which encompasses human rights in every peacekeeing mission. The new doctrine started to take hold and expand in scope and mandate more frequently in peace-building ope

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Some studies of peacekeeping have taken the perspective of civil-military relations. Pre-deployment, they have concentrated on military views on the appropriateness of the mission and on the establishment’s incentives to favor contributing troops. During

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The study is based on emergent conviction that traditional peacekeeping has failed and robust peacekeeping- a strong and forceful peacekeeping force is a better option to reduce human rights violations in civil conflicts. In the absence of adequate data