United Nations Peacekeeping Missions: A Data Extract Project

Rabina, Debbie; Todd, Julian

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Title

United Nations Peacekeeping Missions: A Data Extract Project

Author(s)

• Rabina, Debbie
• Todd, Julian

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• data scraping
• coding
• open official information
• United Nations peacekeeping operation
• case-study

Abstract

This paper describes a project to uncover data about the United Nations peacekeeping operations (PKO). The goals of the project are twofold: first, to uncover the raw numbers available about UN peacekeeping missions, in order to reveal information about the number of troops allocated by different countries to the various missions, as well as numbers about the funding of these missions; second, to describe the process of scraping data and place the practice in the broader context of social science research in the field of open data from intergovernmental organizations.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47271

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14142

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