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United Nations Peacekeeping-Intelligence

2025· book-chapter· en· W4415443014 on OpenAlexaff
A. Walter Dorn

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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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.083
Threshold uncertainty score0.279

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0830.054

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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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