Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia

Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace "from the bottom up" through contributions to local security and local economic and social vitality was tested. The hypo...

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Main Authors:	Mvukiyehe, Eric, Samii, Cyrus
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	FRAGILE STATES PEACEBUILDING PEACEKEEPING POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION CIVIL WAR VIOLENCE LIVELIHOODS DEVELOPMENT LOCAL SECURITY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/377451522326663065/Peacekeeping-and-development-in-fragile-states-micro-level-evidence-from-Liberia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29569

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spelling	okr-10986-295692021-06-08T14:42:45Z Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia Mvukiyehe, Eric Samii, Cyrus FRAGILE STATES PEACEBUILDING PEACEKEEPING POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION CIVIL WAR VIOLENCE LIVELIHOODS DEVELOPMENT LOCAL SECURITY Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace "from the bottom up" through contributions to local security and local economic and social vitality was tested. The hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping works via "peacebuilding." A quasi-experiment was created by applying coarsened exact matching to administrative data used in mission planning, identifying sets of communities that were similarly likely to receive peacekeeping bases. The analysis finds nothing to support claims that deployments increase local security and finds only modest effects on economic or social vitality. Nongovernmental organizations tend to work in areas where deployments are not present, contrary to the hypothesis. Thus, it is less likely that peacekeepers build peace from the bottom up, leaving mechanisms such as signaling and deterrence at the level of leaders as worthy of more attention. For policy, peacekeeping missions should reevaluate their methods for providing local security. 2018-03-30T19:55:01Z 2018-03-30T19:55:01Z 2018-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/377451522326663065/Peacekeeping-and-development-in-fragile-states-micro-level-evidence-from-Liberia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29569 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8389 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Liberia
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spellingShingle	FRAGILE STATES PEACEBUILDING PEACEKEEPING POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION CIVIL WAR VIOLENCE LIVELIHOODS DEVELOPMENT LOCAL SECURITY Mvukiyehe, Eric Samii, Cyrus Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia
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description	Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace "from the bottom up" through contributions to local security and local economic and social vitality was tested. The hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping works via "peacebuilding." A quasi-experiment was created by applying coarsened exact matching to administrative data used in mission planning, identifying sets of communities that were similarly likely to receive peacekeeping bases. The analysis finds nothing to support claims that deployments increase local security and finds only modest effects on economic or social vitality. Nongovernmental organizations tend to work in areas where deployments are not present, contrary to the hypothesis. Thus, it is less likely that peacekeepers build peace from the bottom up, leaving mechanisms such as signaling and deterrence at the level of leaders as worthy of more attention. For policy, peacekeeping missions should reevaluate their methods for providing local security.
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author	Mvukiyehe, Eric Samii, Cyrus
author_facet	Mvukiyehe, Eric Samii, Cyrus
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title	Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia
title_short	Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia
title_full	Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia
title_fullStr	Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia
title_full_unstemmed	Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia
title_sort	peacekeeping and development in fragile states : micro-level evidence from liberia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/377451522326663065/Peacekeeping-and-development-in-fragile-states-micro-level-evidence-from-Liberia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29569
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Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia

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