Blair et al. (2023) examine the effect of UN peacekeeping on democratization in conflict-affected countries. They use … fixed effects and instrumental variable estimators and find evidence that "UN missions with democracy promotion mandates are … strongly positively correlated with the quality of democracy in host countries but that the magnitude of the relationship is …

Existing research suggests that democratization can run counter to building peace in post-conflict contexts. This … democracy and peace: prioritization and gradualism. The prioritization approach advises sequencing, which means postponing … support for democratization and concentrating first on peace in terms of the absence of violent conflict. The gradualist …

studies on the crisis of democracy …

reason nations strive to improve the peaceful coexistence of citizens. This study investigates the effect of democracy … empirical results firstly reveal that democracy increases peace in Africa, particularly in countries where the initial level of …

The 'Normandy Index', now in its second year, aims to measure the level of threats to peace, security and democracy … around the world. It was presented for the first time on the occasion of the Normandy Peace Forum in June 2019, as a result …

An influential body of scholarship has associated both democracy and democratization with civil war. Important findings … include the so-called inverted U-shaped relationship between democracy-levels and civil war onset and that propensity for … new, fine-grained data from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. We discuss how the new data can be used to …