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  • Weak Links in the Chain of Authority: The Challenges of Intervention Decisions to Protect Civilians

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    Breakey, Hugh
    Dekker, Sidney
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    Breakey, Hugh E.
    Dekker, Sidney
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    The United Nations Security Council mandates peacekeeping operations to protect civilians, and regularly authorizes operations to use force to achieve this objective. Yet in the challenging situations facing contemporary peacekeeping operations, local civilians remain vulnerable to extreme violence. One set of reasons for this unwelcome result surrounds the decisions to protect civilians forcefully in any given context. This paper describes how peacekeeping operations vest discretion over the use of robust force across multiple agents. Using signal detection theory to model the decision-making of these agents, our analysis ...
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    The United Nations Security Council mandates peacekeeping operations to protect civilians, and regularly authorizes operations to use force to achieve this objective. Yet in the challenging situations facing contemporary peacekeeping operations, local civilians remain vulnerable to extreme violence. One set of reasons for this unwelcome result surrounds the decisions to protect civilians forcefully in any given context. This paper describes how peacekeeping operations vest discretion over the use of robust force across multiple agents. Using signal detection theory to model the decision-making of these agents, our analysis shows how the iterative nature of the decision-making process gives rise to a chain of authority where the most conservative decision-maker tends to prove decisive. With this analysis in tow, we turn our attention to recent protection initiatives, including Security Council Resolution 2098 (2013) and its controversial mandate for the new 'Intervention Brigade' in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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    Journal Title
    International Peacekeeping
    Volume
    21
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2014.928572
    Copyright Statement
    © 2014 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Peacekeeping on 30 Jun 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13533312.2014.928572
    Subject
    Private Policing and Security Services
    Human Rights and Justice Issues
    Political Science
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/63991
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