2. A project of the International Peace Institute
Understanding Compliance with Security Council Resolutions in Civil Wars
A project of the International Peace Institute 2

3. Project Outputs IPI Security Council Compliance Database
Statistical analysis
Case studies
Edited volume and Policy reports
Searchable database
Project Outputs 3

4. Security Council demands and UN peace operations
Includes armed troops, unarmed military observers and civilian police deployed in civil war country
Security Council demands and UN peace operations 4
Source: IPI Security Council Compliance Database

5. Average number of demands per Security Council civil war Resolution5
Source: IPI Security Council Compliance Database

6. Security Council demands during and after civil wars
Includes armed troops, unarmed military observers and civilian police deployed in civil war country
Security Council demands during and after civil wars 6
Source: IPI Security Council Compliance Database

7. Security Council use of compliance monitoring mandates7
Source: IPI Security Council Compliance Database

8. Under which circumstances are civil war parties most likely to comply with demands of the Security Council?
Does the difficulty of the conflict management setting explain the prospects of compliance?
Which strategies and tools can the Security Council use to make its voice heard by civil war parties?
Is the level of commitment of Security Council members to a demand correlated to compliance?
Research Questions 8

9. Compliance Assessment Methodology
Distinguish between specific operative demands
Assess compliance on a scale
Compliance Assessment Methodology

10. Compliance Assessment Procedure
Document each compliance coding decision
Assign each coding decision to two independent coders
Compliance Assessment Procedure

11. Multi-level structure of data
Selection bias
Statistical Model