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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.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
Additional text
Kjeksrud lays the groundwork for a theory on the use of force to protect civilians in UN peace operations. The book enhances our understanding of how peacekeepers perform over time and across various UN missions when employing force to safeguard civilians. The book will benefit a policy-making audience focused on the practical elements of UN military protection efforts, as it sheds light on the circumstances that contribute to successful outcomes.
