Local Peace, International Builders: How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace from the Bottom Up

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William G. Nomikos (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Local Peace, International Builders

How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace from the Bottom Up

William G. Nomikos (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Cambridge University Press
16 January 2025

International institutions

Communal disputes over local issues such as land use, cattle herding, and access to scarce resources are a leading cause of conflict across the world. In the coming decades, climate change, forced migration, and violent extremism will exacerbate such disputes in places that are ill equipped to handle them. Local Peace, International Builders examines the conditions under which international interventions mitigate communal violence. The book argues that civilian perceptions of impartiality, driven primarily by the legacies of colonialism, shape interveners' ability to manage local disputes. Drawing on georeferenced data on the deployment of over 100,000 UN peacekeepers to fragile settings in the 21st century as well as a multimethod study of intervention in Mali – where widespread violence is managed by the international community – this book highlights a critical pathway through which interventions can maintain order in the international system. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

By: William G. Nomikos (University of California Santa Barbara)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009432160
ISBN 10: 1009432168
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 16 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I. Localized Peace Enforcement Theory: 1. Introduction: understanding interventions to stop local-level violence; 2. The evolution of local-level UN peacekeeping; 3. A micro-level theory of UN peacekeeping; 4. Research design: developing empirical tests of the theory; Part II. Applying the Theory to a Case Study-Mali: 5. Introduction to ethnic conflict and international intervention in Mali; 6. Individual peace: experimental tests on beliefs about cooperation; 7. Communal peace: sub-national tests of escalation dynamics; Part III. Implications for Academics and Policy-Makers: 8. International peace: cross-national tests of impartiality; 9. Conclusion: local-level conflict and the future of international intervention.

William G. Nomikos is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the director of the Data-driven Analysis of Peace Project lab. His research focuses on international intervention, political violence, statebuilding, and intergroup relations. He has published widely on these topics and worked for the UN, EU, the US Agency for International Development, and the Council on Foreign Relations.