Naming and shaming to protect civilians during peacekeeping : lessons from South Sudan

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Uzonyi, Gary (2026) Naming and shaming to protect civilians during peacekeeping : lessons from South Sudan. Swiss Political Science Review. (https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.70051)

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Abstract

What can the United Nations do to strengthen the protection of civilians when it fails? When missions struggle to protect civilians, high-level naming and shaming of non-responsive units within the operation can occur to reorient the operation. Shaming helps rehabilitate the operation and achieve the protection of civilians. Using an interrupted time-series design, I test this claim in the context of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), which provides a hard test for the proposition as it occurred during mass atrocities and is often seen as a failure. Isolating short-term versus long-term effects helps illustrate that even in the hardest of cases, shaming can improve civilian protection.

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Uzonyi, Gary ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6006-993X;
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