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dc.contributor.authorBreakey, Hugh
dc.contributor.authorDekker, Sidney
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-18T00:06:04Z
dc.date.available2017-05-18T00:06:04Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.issn1353-3312
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13533312.2014.928572
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/63991
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom307
dc.relation.ispartofpageto327
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Peacekeeping
dc.relation.ispartofvolume21
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPrivate policing and security services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman rights and justice issues (excl. law)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchDevelopment studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInternational and comparative law
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440212
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode500104
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4404
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4803
dc.titleWeak Links in the Chain of Authority: The Challenges of Intervention Decisions to Protect Civilians
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Law
gro.rights.copyright© 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
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gro.griffith.authorBreakey, Hugh E.
gro.griffith.authorDekker, Sidney


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