Original
Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali
Abstract
Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police focusing on the case of Mali. We combine data on UN local deployment and nationally representative survey rounds from the Afrobarometer. We use the wealth of information from the survey to disentangle the mechanisms linking UN peacekeeping to positive changes in trust in national police. Employing a difference‐in‐difference estimation, we find that respondents in locations that hosted UN police report higher trust toward the national police forces compared to respondents in the control group. We find that this may be due to UN police improving perceptions of safety, accessibility to and integrity of national police forces.
中文
重建对国家警察的信任：联合国马里特派团的案例
摘要
国际干预往往旨在增强国家安全部队的能力及其被感知的合法性。然而，维和行动如何提升对国家警察的信任，受到的关注有限。本文评估联合国特派团能否以及如何（重新）建立对国家警察的信任，聚焦马里案例。我们结合联合国地方部署数据与Afrobarometer全国代表性调查轮次。我们利用调查中的丰富信息，厘清将联合国维和与国家警察信任正向变化联系起来的机制。采用双重差分估计，我们发现，与对照组受访者相比，驻有联合国警察地区的受访者报告对国家警察部队更高的信任。我们发现，这可能是因为联合国警察改善了安全感知、国家警察的可及性与廉洁性。
关键词
联合国维和、国家警察、信任重建、马里、安全感知、合法性、双重差分