Project description
Diversity in UN peacekeeping staff
Geographical diversity is a prominent feature of staffing in international organisations (IOs), yet its impact on their effectiveness remains poorly understood. Additionally, research on diversity in peacekeeping operations has largely focused on military personnel. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the DIVUNPKO project will study geographical diversity among civilian staff in UN peacekeeping operations, which play a vital role in maintaining international peace and security. By integrating diversity research in public administration with studies on international organisations and peacekeeping, the project will collect socio-demographic data on civilian personnel and develop a framework to analyse the impact of diversity within IOs. It will explore how geographical diversity influences throughput, output, and legitimacy among civilian peacekeepers.
Objective
Diversity in the United Nations Peacekeeping Bureaucracy (DIVUNPKO) addresses two critical issues. On the one hand, geographical
diversity is a peculiarity of International Organizations’ staff like the United Nations (UN) and the European Union. Yet, in the
literature, we have little knowledge about the impacts of staff diversity on the functioning of International Organizations (IOs). On the
other hand, scholars have started to acknowledge the importance of diversity in peacekeeping operations but have studied it only for
military staff. The present project fills these gaps by examining the impact of staff geographical diversity in the case of peacekeeping operations, the main tool of the UN for maintaining international peace and security. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective by bridging
diversity research in Public Administration and the literature on IOs and peacekeeping in International Relations. This two-year project
has three objectives: (1) to collect socio-demographic data on civilian staff working in UN peacekeeping operations, 2) to develop an analytical framework to study diversity effects within IOs, and (3) to examine empirically the effects of geographical diversity among civilian peacekeepers along three dimensions: throughput, output and legitimacy. This project will make key contributions to the research on peacekeeping, international bureaucracies, and diversity. At the societal level, this project hopes to impact the work of international civilian missions and sensitize the public to issues of diversity in public organizations more broadly.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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75341 Paris
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