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United Nations Peacekeeping-Intelligence

2025· book-chapter· en· W4415443014 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMilitary Strategy and Technology
Canadian institutionsCanadian Forces CollegeRoyal Military College of Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSanctionsMediationInformation OperationsHuman rightsTask (project management)DisseminationArmed conflict

Abstract

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Abstract The United Nations (UN) has more experience than any other organization in the world as a third-party uniformed presence on the ground seeking peace in conflict zones. This task requires large amounts of intelligence to stay safe and implement multidimensional mandates like humanitarian assistance, ceasefire monitoring, mediation between warring parties, protection of civilians, verification of elections and peace agreements, peacebuilding, peace enforcement, and many other tasks assigned by the UN Security Council. After decades of unwisely shunning intelligence, the UN finally realized in the 2010s that it needed to formally accept the practice of peacekeeping-intelligence (PKI)—that is, multisource information gathering and analysis specifically to assist UN missions in conflict zones. Since 2017, the world organization has been creating PKI policies, doctrine, handbooks, and courses. It benefitted from a long history of successes and failures in early warning, fact-finding, sanctions monitoring, use of informants, and information gathering generally. The lessons are still being learned, so case studies remain crucial. The soldiers, police, and civilians on the ground have new structures and mechanisms to gather, collate, analyze, and disseminate critical information to save lives and alleviate human suffering.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.991
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.190
Teacher spread0.172 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it