The United Nations Peacekeeping and Rule of Law Reform in Post-Conflict Societies Open Access

Maturu, Sweta (2013)

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The United Nations frequently engages in peacekeeping activities in post-conflict societies in order to build and sustain peace. A crucial component to the durability of peace is the rule of law. While there is extensive empirical literature on whether or not UN peacekeeping is effective in improving the durability of peace in a post-conflict setting, there is little literature that empirically examines whether or not UN peacekeeping can improve the rule of law in a post-conflict state. This study empirically examines the relationship between UN peacekeeping and the rule of law in a post-conflict state to ultimately determine if UN peacekeeping has a positive effect in improving the quality of rule of law. Using regression and matching analysis, this study does not find support for UN peacekeeping influencing the rule of law in a post-conflict setting in either a positive or negative direction. Even then, the "non-findings" of this study have implications for policy makers who wish to have post-conflict peacebuilding efforts have a positive substantive effect on improving the rule of law.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - 1 Defining Key Concepts - 2 Literature Review - 4 Factors that affect durability of peace - 5 Peacekeeping and the durability of peace - 10 Rule of law and the durability of peace - 14 Post-conflict justice and the durability of peace -17 Peacekeeping and the rule of law - 20 Non-random Assignment - 22 Theory & Hypotheses - 25 Research Design - 28 Regression Analysis Results - 37 Results, Empirical Findings, and Interpretation for World Bank Measure - 37 Results, Empirical Findings, and Interpretation for CIM measure - 44 Matching Analysis Results - 52 Results for Matching Analysis using World Bank Measure as DV - 52 Results for Matching Analysis using CIM measure as DV - 53 Discussion of Empirical Results - 55 Case Study: UN Peacekeeping Rule of Law Programming in Liberia - 57 Context of engagement - 57 Evaluating UNMIL's work - 69 Conclusion - 83 Conclusion & Further Research - 84 Appendix - 90 Works Cited - 91 FIGURES AND TABLES Table 1: Variables in Analysis - 31 Table 2: Independent Variable Models - 32 Results for difference in World Bank rule of law scores as dependent variable Table 3: PCJ Amnesty - 40 Table 4: SSRI - 41 Table 5: No PCJ Amnesty or SSRI - 42 Figure 1: Substantive Effects with World Bank measure (Table 3, Model A) - 43 Results for difference in CIM values as dependent variable Table 6: All controls (Amnesty and SSR at the same time) - 47 Table 7: Controls + Amnesty control (no SSRI) - 48 Table 8: Controls + SSRI control (No Amnesty) - 49 Table 9: Controls sans Amnesty and SSR controls - 50 Figure 2: Substantive Effects for CIM measure (Table 6, Model A) - 51 Matching Analysis Table 10: Regression Results with CEM weight (using algorithm) using World Bank DV - 52 Table 11: Regression Results with CEM weight (explicit user choice) using World Bank DV - 52 Table 12: Regression Results with algorithm CEM weight using CIM DV - 53 Table 13: Regression Results with CEM weight (explicit user choice) using DV - 54 Summary Statistics Table 14: Summary Statistics for World Bank Rule of Law dataset - 90 Table 15: Summary Statistics for CIM values dataset - 90

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