Replication Data for: Peacekeepers without helmets: How violence shapes local peacebuilding by civilian peacekeepers

While United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations are increasingly deployed during ongoing violent conflict, they are also increasingly staffed with civilian personnel tasked with peacebuilding at the local level. How does violent conflict affect civilian peacekeepers’ peacebuilding efforts locally? Shifting the research focus from military to civilian peacekeepers, we argue that the latter have various incentives and the capacity to concentrate their local-level peacebuilding efforts in violence-affected areas. We test our argument using novel, geo-referenced data on peacebuilding by “Civil Affairs” personnel of the peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic. Consistent with our expectation, violence positively correlates with civilian peacekeepers’ peacebuilding interventions both within and across localities. Furthermore, mediation analyses suggest that this correlation is not merely due to greater UN military deployments in violence-affected areas. Instrumental variable regression supports a causal interpretation: violence leads to more efforts by civilian peacekeepers. These findings inform expectations and assessments of peacekeeping effectiveness.尽管联合国（UN）维和行动日益频繁地部署于持续发生的暴力冲突之中，其人员构成也愈发多地包含被指派开展地方层面和平建设的文职人员。暴力冲突会如何影响文职维和人员的地方和平建设工作？本文将研究视角从军事维和人员转向文职维和人员，认为后者具备多重动机与能力，能够将其地方和平建设工作集中于受暴力影响的区域。本文使用中非共和国维和行动中"民事事务（Civil Affairs）"人员开展和平建设的新型地理参照数据，对上述论点进行检验。研究结果与预期一致：暴力程度与文职维和人员的和平建设干预行动在区域内部及跨区域层面均呈显著正相关。此外，中介效应分析表明，这种相关性并非仅仅源于联合国在受暴力影响区域增加了军事部署。工具变量回归分析则支持因果性解读：暴力冲突会推动文职维和人员加大工作投入。上述研究结果可为维和行动有效性的预期与评估提供参考。