There will soon be 100,000 United Nations peacekeepers in missions around the globe. Wow. When did that happen? Top contributors: Pakistan (10,826), Bangladesh (10,596), and India (8,759).
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Christopher R. Albon is a political science Ph.D. specializing in armed conflict, public health, human security, and health diplomacy.
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Interesting how the African nations seem to have larger proportions of female peacekeepers than other nations. Demographic results of HIV? Internal conflict?
Well, I suspect that in most cases the demographic results of HIV on African women would cause LESS women.
Just eyeballing the results, I don’t know if there is a significant correlation. What cases stand out for you?
That’s what I thought, and war produces a slight bias toward male infants as well, yes? But my eyeball was drawn to Nigeria, Ghana, S Africa, Ethiopia.
I wonder if number of female peacekeepers is simply a proxy for the ratio of military to police units. Police units are more likely to have women, so states that deploy more police units will have a markedly higher number of women.
Just for you TEJ: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/world/africa/06iht-ffpeace.html
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