Jessica Di Salvatore
Honorary Associate Professor in Political Science and Peace Studies
Email: jessica.di-salvatore[AT]warwick.ac.uk
PROFILE
I am an Honorary Associate Professor in Political Science and Peace Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies. Before joining PAIS, I was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford (Department of Politics and International Relations), and associate member at the Nuffield College. I received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam (2017), and an MSc in Conflict Resolution from the University of Essex (2013). The core of my current research agenda concerns the political, economic and social impact of UN peace operations and their contribution to state-building and post-conflict development.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Civil wars
2. Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
3. Criminal violence
4. Ethnic conflict
PUBLICATIONS
2023. UN Peacekeeping and Democratization in Conflict-Affected Countries (with R. Blair and H. Smidt), American Political Science Review doi:
2022. Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions (with Sara Polo and Andrea Ruggeri), European Journal of International Relations doi:
2022. Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates Dataset (PEMA) (with Magnus Lundgren, Kseniya Oksamytna and Hannah Smidt), Journal of Conflict Resolution doi:
2021. When do UN Peacekeeping Operations implement their mandates? (with Rob Blair and Hannah M. Smidt), American Journal of Political Science doi:
2021. UN peacekeeping and households鈥� well-being in civil wars (with Vincenzo Bove and Leandro Elia), American Journal of Political Science. doi:
2021. Spatial Analysis for Political Scientists (with Andrea Ruggeri), Italian Review of Political Science (special issue). doi:
2021. Introducing the PeaceKeeping Operations Corpus (PKOC) (with Elio Amicarelli), Journal of Peace Research. doi:
2020. Tangled Up in Blue: The Effect of UN Peacekeeping on Nonviolent Protests in Post-Civil War Countries (with Margherita Belgioioso and Jonathan Pinckney), International Studies Quarterly. doi:
2020. The Withdrawal of UN Peace Operations and State Capacity: Descriptive Trends and Research Challenges (with Andrea Ruggeri), International Peacekeeping. doi:
2019. Peacekeepers against Criminal Violence - Unintended effects of peacekeeping operations?. American Journal of Political Science. doi:
2019. Fraud Is What People Make of It: Election Fraud, Perceived Fraud and Protesting in Nigeria. Journal of Conflict Resolution (with Ursula Daxecker and Andrea Ruggeri). doi:
2018. Does Criminal Violence Spread? Contagion and Counter-contagion Mechanisms of Piracy. Political Geography, 66:14-33. doi:
2018. Obstacle to peace? Ethnic Geography and Effectiveness of Peacekeeping, British Journal of Political Science doi:
2017. The Effectiveness of Peacekeeping Operations (book chapter with Andrea Ruggeri in 鈥淭he Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theories鈥�, ed. William R. Thompson, Oxford University Press). doi:
2016. Inherently vulnerable? Ethnic geography and the intensity of violence in Bosnian civil war, Political Geography, 51:1-14. doi:
