1. Impact Evaluation 4 Peace 24-27 March 2014, Lisbon, Portugal 1 Combatting Gender-Based Violence: Gender Balancing in the Liberian National Police Michael J. Gilligan New York University With Robert Blair, Kyle Beardsley & Sabrina Karim Latin America and the Caribbean’s Citizen Security Team

6. Are female officers more likely to suspect unreported gender-based crime?

7. Are officers from teams of officers with more women more likely to observe (as a group) the clues of unreported gender- based crime?

8. Experimental Design over 100 groups of six officers Female Officers’ ‘Treatments’Male Officers’ Treatment Women in all female groupsMen in all male groups Women in majority female groups Men in majority male groups Women in minority female groups Men in minority male groups

9. Female Officers’ ‘Treatments’Male Officers’ Treatment Women in all female groupsMen in all male groups Women in majority female groups Men in majority male groups Women in minority female groups Men in minority male groups

10. Activities 1.Questions about proper police procedure 2.Cognitive tests 3.They answered (1) and (2) individually and then had them come up with a group answer

11. Activities Activities required teamwork and group decision making. All activities were incentivized. Officers were paid for right answers.