2025 Prize in International Relations

Winner: Lou Pingeot, Ottawa

Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order

Excerpt from jury report: Police peacekeeping offers a comprehensive study of police peacekeeping in Haiti under a UN mandate. The jury was impressed with the breadth and critical incisiveness of the theoretical argument and the way the methodology was mobilized and laid out. The author should be commended for doing empirical research in a difficult context with ethical integrity and care. A broadly interdisciplinary work, Police Peacekeeping is an important contribution to the field of international relations writ large, but also security studies, and criminological works on policing and international security. The book has implications beyond academia, including in Canadian
policy decisions about how and where to invest in multilateral peace support operations.