Can the international community enable conditions for voluntary, safe and sustainable return of displaced people As conflict is key in the decision to leave and to return, this paper investigates whether the deployment of UN peacekeeping operations can reduce the insecurities driving...

We investigate whether UN peacekeeping fosters voluntary returns and alleviate neg- ative attitudes towards displaced people. We expect peacekeeping missions to achieve these goals by improving security and alleviating the socio-economic cost of new arrivals for host communities. Focusing on the...