The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights from a New Dataset

Mikulaschek, Christoph; Cockayne, James; Perry, Chris

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“… 48 The International Peace Institute (IPI) provides important data on ‘Compliance with Security Council Resolutions’ (Mikulaschek and Perry 2013). However, the IPI data only cover compliance of the parties in a dispute that has escalated to civil war.…”

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Resolving Civil Wars before They Start: The UN Security Council and Conflict Prevention in Self-Determination Disputes

Beardsley¹,

Cunningham²,

White³

2015

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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A large literature has demonstrated that international action can promote the resolution of civil wars. However, international actors do not wait until violence starts to seek to manage conflicts. This article considers the ways in which the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reduces the propensity for self-determination movements to escalate to civil war, through actions that directly pertain to the disputing actors or that indirectly shape actor incentives. It examines the relationship between the content of UNSC resolutions in all self-determination disputes from 1960 to 2005 and the onset of armed conflict in the disputes. The study finds that diplomatic actions that directly address disputes reduce the likelihood of armed conflict, and that military force and sanctions have more indirect preventive effects.Over the last several decades, international actorsoften working through international organizations such as the United Nations (UN)have focused increasing attention on managing violent intrastate conflict. This trend accelerated after the end of the Cold War, as efforts at the UN and other international bodies were then not stymied by superpower competition. Former UN Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali's Agenda for Peace (1992) emphasizes four areas of action that the international community could and should undertake to promote peace: preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, peacekeeping and post-conflict peace building. A large body of literature has examined the effect of the latter three types of action, and many of the conclusions reached have been optimistic. Studies have concluded that the UN can be effective at building peace, 1 that peacekeeping works, 2 that mediation can help facilitate settlement 3 and that legal dispute resolution is especially effective. 4 While this literature has advanced academic understanding of the effect of international actions and has had implications for policy makers seeking to resolve violent conflicts, there is still a substantial gap in our understanding of international efforts to prevent violent intrastate conflicts. Virtually all existing work focuses on managing or resolving ongoing violent conflicts.

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Resolving Civil Wars before They Start: The UN Security Council and Conflict Prevention in Self-Determination Disputes

Beardsley¹,

Cunningham²,

White³

2015

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…The observable implications flowing from these two perspectives have been subject to empirical evaluation in both quantitative and qualitative studies. Cockayne, Mikulaschek and Perry (2010) find that the UNSC's attention has varied across time, geography and conflict characteristics, but they could not determine whether public or parochial interests dominated. Examining 40 armed conflicts between 2002 and 2013, Frederking and Patane (2017) find that conflicts generating more deaths and refugees are more likely to receive the UNSC's attention, while indicators of P5 interests matter less.…”

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“…In contrast, the 'concert perspective' views the UNSC as a mechanism to safeguard the interests of the P5 and escape great-power war (Bosco 2009). Other researchers have expressed this distinction in different terms (Binder and Golub 2020;Cockayne, Mikulaschek and Perry 2010), while agreeing that the fundamental debate pertains to whether the UNSC's agenda reflects a concern for broad, public interests or is primarily driven by great-power politics.…”

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Selective Attention: The United Nations Security Council and Armed Conflict

Lundgren

Klamberg²

2022

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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What explains why the United Nations Security Council meets and deliberates on some armed conflicts but not others? We advance a theoretical argument centred on the role of conflict externalities, state interests and interest heterogeneity. We investigate data on the Security Council's deliberation on armed conflicts in the 1989–2019 period and make three key findings: (1) conflicts that generate substantive military or civilian deaths are more likely to attract the Security Council's attention; (2) permanent members are varyingly likely to involve the Security Council when their interests are at stake; and (3) in contrast to the conventional wisdom, conflicts over which members have divergent interests are more likely to enter the agenda than other conflicts. The findings have important implications for debates about the Security Council's attention, responsiveness to problems and role in world politics.

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“…A peaceful and secure environment is helpful in every society since it contributes to all aspects of a country's social development and economic growth and is a necessary sine qua non to realizing human rights. Since 1989, the United Nations Security Council and Civil War has deployed UN peace operations to many countries affected by civil war, imposed sanctions on dozens of civil-war groups, and created many transitional administrations and international criminal tribunals to respond to factional fighting and civil wars, and their consequences (Cockayne et al, 2010) (Graben and Fitz-Gerald, 2013).…”

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The Success of Win-Win Policy and Peace Building Process in Cambodia.

Chhay,

Soeun,

Sambath

2022

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The Paris Peace Agreement was signed on 23 October 1991. Before the Paris Peace Agreement was established, Cambodia was the site of a fierce battle between Khmer Rouge forces and government troops near the border of Thailand, supported by foreign sponsors. For the purpose of national reconciliation and reunification, Samdech Norodom Sihanouk and the Prime Minister Hun Sen met five times before Paris Peace Agreement came into being.

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The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights from a New Dataset

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Resolving Civil Wars before They Start: The UN Security Council and Conflict Prevention in Self-Determination Disputes

Resolving Civil Wars before They Start: The UN Security Council and Conflict Prevention in Self-Determination Disputes

Selective Attention: The United Nations Security Council and Armed Conflict

The Success of Win-Win Policy and Peace Building Process in Cambodia.

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