This is the Final Report of the Preliminary Study for the Thematic Evaluation of the European Commission support to Conflict Prevention and Peace Building, which is part of the 2008 evaluation programme approved by the External Relations and Development Commissioners. Its purpose is to present...

This Midterm Evaluation of the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP) is one of several parallel evaluations of External Financing Instruments under the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020, and feeds into the required Midterm Review report of the External Financing...

This review of the strategic evaluations carried out on behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Co-operation and Development (DG DEVCO) is part of a DG DEVCO and European External Action Service (EEAS) exercise aimed at updating the European Consensus on...

‘Mine action’ is a generic term which includes any of the following range of activities: mine risk education, minefield survey assessment and marking, mine detection, mine clearance, destruction of stockpiled mines, assistance to mine victims including rehabilitation and reintegration,...

This “Evaluation of the implementation of the African Peace Facility (APF) as an instrument supporting African efforts to manage conflicts on the continent” covers the period 2014-2016 and two of the three areas supported by the APF, i.e. support to African-led Peace Support Operations...

UN peacekeeping missions are deployed in increasingly violent contexts, such as Mali and South Sudan. It leaves such missions suspended somewhere between traditional peacekeeping and peace enforcement. Concurrently with this transformation, protection of civilians has become increasingly...

Bilateral diplomacy has become increasingly important in today's multipolar world. A number of cases are analysed in this DIIS Working Paper, where Nordic countries have been 'disciplined' in bilateral diplomacy by the emerging great powers of Russia, China, or India. Compared to the immediate...

Die gegenwärtige Weltwirtschaftskrise hat die Diskussion um die Wirkungen der Globalisierung und einer kapitalistischen Wirtschaftsordnung neu entfacht, vielfach herrscht eine große Skepsis über die möglichen negativen Wirkungen der Globalisierung. Derartig motivierte Sorgen können sich...

This report provides a rapid mapping analysis of the existing documentation concerning civil and military approaches in international operations. Its main purpose is to extract and review key lessons learned and dilemmas from recent experiences in Afghanistan, Iraq and other international...