The UN has developed a diverse range of peacemaking tools, including different forms of political initiatives (diplomatic, technocratic, and political-development missions) and peacekeeping operations. Yet we know surprisingly little about when and why we observe the onset of different types of UN missions. Examining an “escalatory trajectory,” we analyze the United Nations Peace Initiatives data, a new dataset providing information on all different types of UN engagements. Our main contributions are that we provide insights into how the different types of missions relate to one another and conceptual clarity about what the different types of missions are.

联合国开发了各种各样的建立和平工具，包括不同形式的政治倡议（外交，技术官僚和政治发展特派团）和维持和平行动。然而，对于何时以及为什么我们观察到不同类型的联合国特派团的成立，我们知之甚少。考察“升级轨迹”，我们分析了联合国和平倡议的数据，这是一个新的数据集，提供了有关联合国所有不同类型参与活动的信息。我们的主要贡献在于，我们可以洞悉不同类型的任务之间的关系，并在概念上明确不同类型的任务是什么。