The article examines how military leaders serving as peacekeepers navigate complexity and adapt to it. The theoretical underpinnings of the study are linked to adaptive peacebuilding and Complexity Leadership Theory, and specifically to how enabling leadership through adaptive space helps to work with the local conflict dynamics and change to sustain peace. The findings are based on 29 interviews with military leaders with command experience in peacekeeping operations. The findings introduce five dimensions that unpack complexity into structural, functional, security-related, professional, and steering-related complexity and provide empirical evidence on balancing actions relating to complexity in a peacekeeping context. The article develops an analytical framework for peacekeeping. It also contributes to Complexity Leadership Theory by unpacking the complexity into dimensions, unpacking the actors into groups and communities with commitments, and addressing power relations and the dark side of their emergence.

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拥抱动态紧张局势：维和作为复杂性的平衡行为

这篇文章探讨了作为维和人员的军事领导人如何驾驭复杂性并适应它。该研究的理论基础与适应性和平建设和复杂性领导理论有关，特别是与通过适应性空间实现领导力如何有助于应对当地冲突动态和变革以维持和平。调查结果基于对具有维和行动指挥经验的军事领导人的 29 次采访。研究结果引入了五个维度，将复杂性分解为结构、功能、安全相关、专业和指导相关的复杂性，并为平衡维和环境中与复杂性相关的行动提供了经验证据。本文为维持和平制定了一个分析框架。