Essays about: "peace enforcement"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words peace enforcement.

  1. 1. The Blue Helmets’ Dark Side : A Quantitative Study of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peace Missions

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Sarah Vorms; [2023]
    Keywords : Sexual exploitation and abuse SEA ; peace enforcement; United Nations.;

    Abstract : Protecting human rights is the core mission of the UN, yet peacekeepers commit human rights violations, including sexual violence, during missions. While the literature has focused on qualitative research to assess the factors that make sexual exploitation and abuse occur, few studies have looked at it from a quantitative approach, and none have looked at the effect of the mission mandate. READ MORE

  3. 2. Peace from the barrel of a gun. : The effect of NATO and UN peace enforcement on war intensity.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Robin Sällström; [2023]
    Keywords : Peacekeeping; peace enforcement; NATO; UN; war intensity.;

    Abstract : Since 1991, NATO has played a prominent role in peacekeeping and peace enforcement in the Balkans and Afghanistan. Despite NATO’s role in peacekeeping, there is little literature that compares the efficacy of NATO and UN peace enforcement operations. READ MORE

  4. 3. For Whom the Bugle Calls – Past and Present of Third-Party Enforcement in International Law

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Hilda Malm Hansson; [2022]
    Keywords : public international law; legal history; enforcement; third state; sanctions; countermeasures; neutrality; sovereignty; non-intervention; collective security; international conflicts; United Nations; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the phenomena of third-party enforcement in public international law, in a historical as well as in a contemporary perspective. To that end, it traces the role of such enforcement measures from the past into the present. READ MORE

  5. 4. Interventions: How Peace Enforcement Affects Violence Against Civilians

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Jakob Schabus; [2021]
    Keywords : UN Peacekeeping; Peace Enforcement; Violence Against Civilians; Armed Groups; Democratic Republic of the Congo;

    Abstract : United Nations Peacekeeping has proven to be remarkably effective at reducing violence against civilians - without using compellent force. A recent turn towards peace enforcement raises the questions: Does the use of force within a peace enforcement mandate affect the use of violence against civilians by an armed group? If this is the case, by what mechanism does this effect occur? This thesis provides two novel explanations on how the use of force by peacekeepers could affect violence against civilians by the targeted armed group. READ MORE

  6. 5. From Nobel Peace Prize Winner to War Criminal : A qualitative text analysis of the Abiy Ahmed administration’s discursive patterns of democratic backsliding

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Moa Berming; [2021]
    Keywords : Democratic backsliding; Levitsky and Ziblatt’s model of democratic backsliding; Abiy Ahmed; Ethiopia;

    Abstract : This study examines if the process of democratic backsliding is observable in the discursive patterns of a government that is the driving force of democratic erosion which can be useful when attempting to discern if a government has undemocratic ambitions. The actor analyzed to answer the research question is the government of Ethiopia. READ MORE