Postwar recovery efforts foreground gender equality as a key component of building more
liberal democracies. This review explores the burgeoning scholarship on women's rights …

Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition
in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the …

United Nations policy forbids its peacekeepers and other personnel from engaging in
transactional sex (the exchange of money, favors, or gifts for sex), but we find the behavior to …

In the aftermath of civil conflict, war-torn states often require reform of their government
institutions. Gender balancing, or the inclusion of more women in security-sector institutions …

Civilian confidence in domestic institutions, particularly in the security sector, is important for
stability and state consolidation in post-conflict countries, where third-party peacekeepers …

Public health emergencies like major epidemics in countries with already poor health
infrastructure have the potential to set back efforts to reduce maternal deaths globally. The …

How does expanding state capacity change power inequalities between men and women? I
design a field experiment in a remote area of post-conflict Papua New Guinea that randomly …

Epidemics that overwhelm health and national institutions tend to disproportionately affect
individuals from marginalized communities. The securitization of epidemics further …

Abstracts What effect does sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) reporting by the United
Nations (UN) have on the actions of peacekeeping missions' troop and police contributing …

The UN. has intensified efforts to recruit female peacekeepers for peacekeeping missions.
From 2006 to 2014, the number of female military personnel in UN peacekeeping missions …