New research funding awarded for project on peacekeeping
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CeSeR Co-Director, Maggie Dwyer, has been awarded funding as part of the Cornell University and University of Edinburgh Global Strategic Collaboration Award. The project is titled ‘From War at Home to War Abroad: Understanding the Experiences of Post-Conflict Peacekeepers’ and is being co-led with Sabrina Karim from University of Cornell.
The project brings together Dwyer and Karim's research interests on peacekeepers, with a focus on Sierra Leone and Liberia. After two decades of post-civil war security sector reform these countries have now deployed forces to UN peacekeeping missions. Those that were once involved in civil war are now the ones leading the efforts for peace in other countries such as Mali. This project seeks to understand how security force personnel in Liberia and Sierra Leone experience their role as peacekeepers and what effects the deployment has on them once they return home.
CeSeR is looking forward to taking part in the workshop for this project, which will be held in Edinburgh in spring of 2024.