Seminar Description
This article introduces the dataset on UN Peace Missions Mandates (UNPMM). The dataset codes the mandate tasks of all UN peace missions - defined here as UN peacekeeping operations, special political missions, and special envoys and advisors - between 1991 and 2020. It comes in two versions: a raw dataset for use by quantitative scholars and a user-interfaceable version that can be used as starting point for both quantitative and qualitative analyses. The UNPMM has the potential to provide new insights on the supply and demand of UN peace missions, overcome dichotomies in the literature on local-global interactions, and deliver a new empirical basis for studying mission effectiveness. It makes an important contribution to peace and conflict studies as it allows for a fine-grained analysis of the scope and evolution of UN peace mission mandates since the end of the Cold War.
About the speakers
Sara Hellmüller is a Senior Researcher and SNSF PRIMA Project Leader for the project "A child of its time: the impact of world politics on peacebuilding" at the CCDP. Her research interests include norms in mediation and peacebuilding, the impact of world politics on peace operations, and local and international peacebuilding, particularly in Syria and DR Congo.
Rosalind Tan is a Master’s candidate in International Affairs at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) specializing in Global Security and a student researcher on the SNSF PRIMA project “A child of its time: the impact of world politics on peacebuilding” at the CCDP. Her research interests include post-colonial critical theory, discourse analysis and illiberal peacebuilding.