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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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| 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 |
| Summary: | 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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