We have carried out process tracing of the impact of UN peacekeeping operations’ activities on authoritarian behaviour in Cambodia, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Liberia.
We have undertaken in-person fieldwork before the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and remote fieldwork throughout the project, which was complemented by archival research. We have conducted more than 200 semi-structured interviews with current and former UN officials who have worked across a range of peacekeeping missions and at UN headquarters, including seven Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) and eleven Deputy SRSGs.
Here are some examples of field trips and data collection:
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