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Di Salvatore, Jessica (2019) Peacekeepers against criminal violence – unintended effects of peacekeeping operations? American Journal of Political Science, 63 (4). pp. 840-858. doi:10.1111/ajps.12451 ISSN 0092-5853.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12451
Abstract
Research shows that peacekeepers reduce conflict intensity; however, effects of deployment on non-political violence are unknown. This article focuses on criminal violence and proposes a two-fold mechanism to explain why peacekeeping missions, even when effectively reducing conflict, can inadvertently increase criminal violence. First, less conflict opens up economic opportunities (so-called peacekeeping economies) and provides operational security for organized crime, thus increasing violent competition among criminal groups. Second, demobilized combatants are vulnerable to turn to crime because of limited legal livelihood opportunities and their training in warfare. While UN troops may exacerbate these dynamics, UN police peculiar role is likely to successfully contain criminal violence. Cross-national and subnational empirical analyses show that large UN military deployments result in higher homicide rates whereas UN police, overall, moderates this collateral effect.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Peacekeeping forces , Violent crimes, United Nations -- Peacekeeping forces | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | American Journal of Political Science | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0092-5853 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | October 2019 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 63 | ||||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 840-858 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ajps.12451 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Di Salvatore, J. (2019), Peacekeepers against Criminal Violence—Unintended Effects of Peacekeeping Operations?. American Journal of Political Science, 63: 840-858. doi:10.1111/ajps.12451 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12451 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 February 2019 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 July 2021 | ||||||||||
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