A Comparative Analysis of the Conditions Enabling UN Peacekeeping Operations to Promote Political Solutions to Conflict

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K13618
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 06020:International relations-related
• Research Institution: Hiroshima City University (2021); University of Tsukuba (2019-2020)
• Principal Investigator: Hadano Takamitsu 広島市立大学, 国際学部, 講師 (20824353)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 平和維持活動 / PKO / 国際連合 / 地域機構 / 地域紛争 / 国際機構間関係

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project conducted comparative analyses of peacekeeping missions with a view to identifying the conditions which enable peacekeeping missions to play an active role in promoting and facilitating the political settlement of conflicts. The project focused on how the inter-relations between multilateral institutions engaged in peacekeeping affect the role and effectiveness of peacekeeping missions dispatched with the aim of promoting political solutions to conflict. The analyses of peacekeeping cases in regions such as Africa and Eastern Europe suggest that the existence of mutual understanding and cooperation between multilateral institutions constitutes one of the key factors for peacekeeping missions to play an active role in promoting and assisting the political resolution of conflicts.

Free Research Field

国際関係論

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

従来の研究はPKOの実効性を主にPKOの任務・権限・予算などの観点から分析してきたが、本研究はPKOに携わる政治的アクター、特に国連や地域機構などの多国間機構の役割とそれらの相互関係に着目しながら紛争の政治的解決プロセスにおけるPKOの役割とその実効性についての分析を行っている点に学術的意義がある。また、本研究の成果は、地域の安全保障に関わる諸問題に対して国連や地域機構がどのように対処すべきかを考えるための示唆を与えるものである。