Stian Kjeksrud

Using Force to Protect Civilians

Successes and Failures of United Nations Peace Operations in Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of United Nations military protection operations across time and UN missions. It draws on a novel dataset that covers 200 operations from ten UN peacekeeping missions in Africa from 1999 to 2017, and evaluates the successes and failures of UN military troops in protecting civilians from violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780192857101
• ISBN-10: 019285710X
• Artikelnr.: 67864695

Autorenporträt

Stian Kjeksrud is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian Defence University College/Command and Staff College. He studies the utility of force to protect civilians from violence in war and armed conflict and develops EdTech tools in Extended Reality to improve learning in higher military education. Before his academic career, Kjeksrud served as an officer and soldier in international operations, including Afghanistan, North Macedonia, Kosovo, and Lebanon, and worked as a police officer in Oslo.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Protection by military force in UN peace operations
* 2: Understanding the utility of force to protect civilians from
violence
* 3: Exploring characteristics and outcomes of UN military protection
operations
* 4: Analyzing empirical patterns of UN military protection operations
* 5: Discovering causal pathways to successful protection outcomes
* 6: Protecting civilians from the M23
* 7: Overwhelmed by the White Army
* 8: Increasing the utility of force to protect
* Appendices
* Bibliography