Benjamin Zyla is Full professor in the School of International Development & Global Studies at the University of Ottawa where he directs the Peacebuilding and Local Knowledge network (PLKN). A political scientist by training, his work has focused on peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected societies, post- conflict reconstruction, collective action problems of international (security) organizations, and burden sharing in peace operations. Benjamin was the 2021 NATO Defense College Fellow in Rome in 2021, funded by the Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS).
Measuring NATO burden sharing fairness is not an easy task. Benjamin Zyla argues that we need to move beyond focusing on input and output variables due to their methodological limitations, and instead focus on studying the impact that NATO member states have in contributing to NATO’s collective goods.
