Violence Ends Violence?: Micro-level Deterrence in UN Peacekeeping with Archival Evidence from Somalia

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Peacekeeping and Post-Conflict Order

Brief Overview

My paper uses detailed archival data for the UN mission in Somalia and a Bayesian multilevel model to test micro-level deterrence dynamics. Peacekeepers experience fewer attacks if they responded more frequently and forcefully to attacks in the past.

Author

• Merlin N. Heidemanns, Columbia University