Replication Data for: Cooperation, information, and keeping the peace: Civilian engagement with peacekeepers in Haiti

Cultivating cooperation with local populations is necessary for peacekeeping operations to effectively prevent and reduce violence. To accomplish their missions in complex foreign theaters of operation, peacekeepers must solicit information about local political actors, social networks, and violence. Under what conditions do local populations cooperate with United Nations peacekeepers? How does exposure to peacekeeping security activities, relief activities, or abuse – three of the primary ways that local communities experience peacekeepers – affect the likelihood that individuals cooperate with peacekeepers by providing information to them? Using an original survey of a random sample of residents of metropolitan Port-au-Prince, Haiti, we show that people who are exposed to security and relief activities by the United Nations peacekeeping operation, MINUSTAH, have more positive opinions of how effective they are, and are more willing to cooperate with peacekeepers by providing them with information. On the other hand, exposure to abuse dramatically undermines civilian opinions of how effective, benevolent, and abusive peacekeepers are but has a smaller effect on cooperation. These findings present an opportunity and challenge for peacekeepers: if public opinion and cooperation are responsive to peacekeeper policy, then peacekeepers must deliver services and prevent abuse in order to solicit the cooperation that is necessary for mission success.

维和行动若要有效预防并降低暴力冲突，必须与当地民众建立合作关系。为在复杂的海外作战区域完成任务，维和人员必须征集关于当地政治行为体、社会网络及暴力事件的相关信息。当地民众会在何种条件下与联合国维和人员开展合作？而当地民众接触维和行动的三类核心场景——安全行动、救济活动，抑或是遭遇维和人员的虐待行为——会如何影响个体通过向维和人员提供信息来与之合作的意愿？本研究通过对海地太子港都会区居民的随机抽样原创调查发现，接触过联合国海地稳定特派团（MINUSTAH）安全行动与救济活动的民众，对维和行动的有效性评价更为积极，且更愿意通过提供信息的方式与维和人员开展合作。反之，民众若遭遇维和人员的虐待行为，则会大幅削弱对维和行动有效性与仁慈性的评价，同时加剧对维和人员的负面观感，但该类接触对民众合作意愿的影响相对较小。上述研究结果为维和人员带来了机遇与挑战：若民众的公共评价与合作意愿会对维和政策做出响应，则维和人员必须通过提供服务、杜绝虐待行为来征集任务成功所需的合作支持。