What it Takes to Return : UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People

What it Takes to Return : UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People

Can the international community enable conditions for voluntary, safe and sustainable return of displaced people As conflict is key in the decision to leave and to return, this paper investigates whether the deployment of UN peacekeeping operations...

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Main Authors: Bove, Vincenzo, Di Salvatore, Jessica, Elia, Leandro
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:
INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE
RETURNEES
UN PEACEKEEPING EFFECTIVENESS
POST-CONFLICT RETURN
PERCEPTIONS OF RETURNEES
SOCIAL COHESION
SUPPORT TO RETURNEES
POST-CONFLICT REPATRIATION
DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY GOALS
SAFE RETURN OF REFUGEES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099233206232221153/IDU0d33c239802be9041020bdcc0e8f886101f22
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spelling okr-10986-375982022-06-28T05:10:40Z What it Takes to Return : UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People Bove, Vincenzo Di Salvatore, Jessica Elia, Leandro INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE RETURNEES UN PEACEKEEPING EFFECTIVENESS POST-CONFLICT RETURN PERCEPTIONS OF RETURNEES SOCIAL COHESION SUPPORT TO RETURNEES POST-CONFLICT REPATRIATION DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY GOALS SAFE RETURN OF REFUGEES Can the international community enable conditions for voluntary, safe and sustainable return of displaced people As conflict is key in the decision to leave and to return, this paper investigates whether the deployment of UN peacekeeping operations can reduce the insecurities driving displacement and delaying return. It explores the case of South Sudan, which hosts the second largest UN peace operation in the world. It combines information on peacekeepers' subnational deployment with data on individuals' intention to move and host communities' perceptions of returnees and internally displaced people (IDPs) using two surveys, one carried out between 2015 and 2017 and one in 2018. To mitigate concerns about non-random subnational assignment of peacekeepers, the paper exploits variations in the presence of previous infrastructures and information on the total supply of troops to African countries from each troop-contributing country. The paper finds that UN peacekeeping affects both the magnitude and the quality of return. Displaced people are more likely to return home if peacekeepers are deployed in their county of destination. At the same time, the local presence of peacekeepers mitigates host communities' negative perception of IDPs; they also enable the delivery of support to communities that seem to improve attitudes toward returnees and IDPs. 2022-06-27T15:24:11Z 2022-06-27T15:24:11Z 2022-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099233206232221153/IDU0d33c239802be9041020bdcc0e8f886101f22 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37598 English Policy Research Working Papers;10102 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research South Sudan
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topic INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE
RETURNEES
UN PEACEKEEPING EFFECTIVENESS
POST-CONFLICT RETURN
PERCEPTIONS OF RETURNEES
SOCIAL COHESION
SUPPORT TO RETURNEES
POST-CONFLICT REPATRIATION
DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY GOALS
SAFE RETURN OF REFUGEES
spellingShingle INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE
RETURNEES
UN PEACEKEEPING EFFECTIVENESS
POST-CONFLICT RETURN
PERCEPTIONS OF RETURNEES
SOCIAL COHESION
SUPPORT TO RETURNEES
POST-CONFLICT REPATRIATION
DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY GOALS
SAFE RETURN OF REFUGEES
Bove, Vincenzo
Di Salvatore, Jessica
Elia, Leandro
What it Takes to Return : UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People
geographic_facet South Sudan
relation Policy Research Working Papers;10102
description Can the international community enable conditions for voluntary, safe and sustainable return of displaced people As conflict is key in the decision to leave and to return, this paper investigates whether the deployment of UN peacekeeping operations can reduce the insecurities driving displacement and delaying return. It explores the case of South Sudan, which hosts the second largest UN peace operation in the world. It combines information on peacekeepers' subnational deployment with data on individuals' intention to move and host communities' perceptions of returnees and internally displaced people (IDPs) using two surveys, one carried out between 2015 and 2017 and one in 2018. To mitigate concerns about non-random subnational assignment of peacekeepers, the paper exploits variations in the presence of previous infrastructures and information on the total supply of troops to African countries from each troop-contributing country. The paper finds that UN peacekeeping affects both the magnitude and the quality of return. Displaced people are more likely to return home if peacekeepers are deployed in their county of destination. At the same time, the local presence of peacekeepers mitigates host communities' negative perception of IDPs; they also enable the delivery of support to communities that seem to improve attitudes toward returnees and IDPs.
format Working Paper
author Bove, Vincenzo
Di Salvatore, Jessica
Elia, Leandro
author_facet Bove, Vincenzo
Di Salvatore, Jessica
Elia, Leandro
author_sort Bove, Vincenzo
title What it Takes to Return : UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People
title_short What it Takes to Return : UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People
title_full What it Takes to Return : UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People
title_fullStr What it Takes to Return : UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People
title_full_unstemmed What it Takes to Return : UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People
title_sort what it takes to return : un peacekeeping and the safe return of displaced people
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2022
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099233206232221153/IDU0d33c239802be9041020bdcc0e8f886101f22
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