If EU Civilian CSDP crisis management is to become more strategic and impactful, it must confront an uncomfortable reality: missions cannot be open-ended. Aino Esser outlined key questions for strengthening impact and relevance.
@villesavoranta.bsky.social now turns to closure and transition:
"When I’m no longer around to settle wars, the U.N. can” “It has tremendous potential. Tremendous.” 😂
02.02.2026 11:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Following Timo Smit arguing in favour of more strong and strategic EU Civilian CSDP crisis management, ahead of Ville Savoranta's upcoming paper on closure and transition of EU civilian CSDP missions, Aino Esser's paper maps the questions to be addressed to strengthen impact and strategic relevance.
29.01.2026 16:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Board of Peace’: a club a popular kid in school made up, where membership is granted at their whim… and candy is non-negotiable.
The Charter speaks of 'peace-building mission[s]', indicating personnel deployments, on a voluntary, ad hoc, and occasional basis. Peace operations?
In the wake of the pandemic, development aid has entered a new era. As democratic backsliding and tighter government restrictions spread, #civilsociety faces new challenges. This #SIPRI paper by @jvdlijn.bsky.social explores how actors can navigate restrictive environments.
More: bit.ly/49pZ5Sb
In places where governments restrict civic and political space, what:
👉are challenges CSOs face?
👉are CSO coping strategies?
👉do CSOs ask from international and funding partners?
Are you working in the field and able to share experiences?
Many thanks to Cordaid, Just Future and Netherlands MFA.
This #SIPRI map highlights all multilateral #PeaceOperations active as of 1 May 2025 plus a number of missions and operations authorized and/or conducted by the #UN and regional organizations around the world.
Explore the map ➡️ bit.ly/4pzapC5
Many thanks to the Netherlands, Belgium and DRC missions for hosting and co-organizing our Just Future event, informing current and incoming Security Council members on MONUSCO mandate renewal.
@cordaid.bsky.social @sipri.org
The Security Council should not ask MONUSCO to do more with less. If it does, the Secretary-General should tell the Council what it needs to hear, not what it likes to hear: i.e. 'no can do.'
12.11.2025 11:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Last week @sipri.org org and @fesonline.bsky.social organized a scenarios workshop on the future of the Korean peninsula. Now already two participants wrote up their thoughts. Ken Jimbo (bit.ly/3LIELTT) & @johndelury.bsky.social (bit.ly/49eMdA3) Honoured to work with a group of great minds!
12.11.2025 11:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the WPS agenda, @sipri.org published its annual overview of women in multilateral PeaceOps (EU, OSCE and UN). How are organizations, missions and states performing on the aim of gender balance?
The answers are here: bit.ly/47at2WJ
What will be the impact of reduced funding for multilateral conflict management and increasing disregard of norms on global peace and security? It will be messy!
The research will continue, also to provide input to the UN Peace Operations Review. @UNPeacekeeping @UNDPPA
@pdwilliamsgwu.bsky.social @usmaanaali.bsky.social @fes ps
26.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As conflict management in 10 years is likely more bilateral and ad hoc, the question is: how to manage this diversity of actors?
Earlier this month, participants at a @sipri.org and @fesonline.bsky.social workshop, explored the future of conflict management in Africa: bit.ly/3KfZRsf.
And Putin agrees to having EU troops in Ukraine? JAQ: www.reuters.com/world/europe...
31.08.2025 22:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
International cooperation means you scratch each other's back and do not always try to get your way. The US pushed through the closure of the UN mission in Lebanon, UNIFIL. Will it now get support for a more lethal ‘Gang-Suppression Force’ for Haiti www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
29.08.2025 09:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great continuation of our @sipri.org and @fesonline conversations on the topic in Dakar!!! While the need for conflict management is increasing, consensus, funds, willingness and interests at the multilateral level are lacking. Is the future deinstititionalized, fragmented, and more militarised?
11.08.2025 09:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This SIPRI map highlights all multilateral #PeaceOperations active as of 1 May 2025 plus a number of missions and operations authorized and/or conducted by the United Nations and regional organizations around the world.
Explore the map ➡️ bit.ly/4mvArFuNew
Nearly all of the nine nuclear-armed states—🇺🇸🇷🇺🇬🇧🇫🇷🇨🇳🇮🇳🇵🇰🇰🇵🇮🇱—continued intensive nuclear modernization programmes in 2024, upgrading existing weapons and adding newer versions. Read the press release🔗 bit.ly/45TEl57
#SIPRIYearbook #NuclearWeapons #ArmsControl #NuclearRisk #Disarmament #NonProliferation
🇺🇸🇷🇺 Russia and the USA together possess around 90% of all nuclear weapons. Both continue extensive modernization programmes. Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/45TEl57
#SIPRIYearbook #NuclearWeapons #ArmsControl #NuclearRisk #Disarmament #NonProliferation
📢 Nuclear risks grow as new arms race looms—new SIPRI Yearbook out now. Read the press release 🔗 bit.ly/45TEl57
#SIPRIYearbook #NuclearWeapons #ArmsControl #NuclearRisk #Disarmament #NonProliferation
Main contributors of police personnel to UN and non-UN Multilateral Peace Operations:
🇸🇳Senegal 1215
🇷🇼Rwanda 1097
🇰🇪Kenya 473
🇪🇬Egypt 397
🇨🇲Cameroon 363
🇬🇭Ghana 356
🇲🇷Mauritania 326
🇩🇯Djibouti 238
🇳🇵Nepal 228
🇳🇬Nigeria 228
@sipri.org Fact Sheet➡️ bit.ly/3HhIZzQ
Main contributors of military personnel to UN and non-UN Multilateral Peace Operations:
🇳🇵Nepal 5908
🇧🇩Bangladesh 5482
🇮🇳India 5211
🇷🇼Rwanda 4779
🇺🇬Uganda 4655
🇪🇹Ethiopia 3715
🇿🇦South Africa 3706
🇧🇮Burundi 2971
🇰🇪Kenya 2642
🇵🇰Pakistan 2598
@sipri.org Fact Sheet➡️ bit.ly/3HhIZzQ
Current trends in multilateral peace operations include geopolitical rivalries and uncertain regionalization.
Looking ahead expect more:
1️⃣Multilateral inaction; and
2️⃣Deinstitutionalization/fragmentation, and
3️⃣Militarization/securitization of efforts that do take place.
➡️ doi.org/10.55163/VVWF7280
In a world where conflict seems to be on the rise, tools of conflict management seem to be in decline.
Explore our map ➡️ bit.ly/4mvArFu, and @sipri.org data on multilateral #PeaceOps ➡️ bit.ly/3SolkzX
Proud of Claudia Pfeifer Cruz for putting the facts together!
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New @sipri.org data on multilateral #peaceoperations out now!
Don't worry! It is only 6% less personnel, and 2 operations fewer than last year!
Out of all multilateral peace operations international personnel:
👉69% were deployed in UN-led operations
👉74% were hosted in Sub-Saharan Africa
See the new
@sipri.org data out now:
Press release➡️ bit.ly/3SolkzX
Map➡️ bit.ly/4mvArFu
Fact sheet➡️ doi.org/10.55163/VVW...
The 61 Multilateral Peace Operations active in 2024 were located in:
👉Sub-Saharan Africa (21),
👉Europe (19),
👉Middle East and North Africa (14),
👉Americas (4)
👉Asia and Oceania (3)
Operations are particularly an African affair in personnel numbers, less in mission numbers.
SIPRI data out now!
@sipri.org @fesonline.bsky.social @unpeacekeeping.bsky.social
The Berlin Peacekeeping Ministerial discussed partnerships, modular approaches and pledges. Our FES-SIPRI side event "The Future of Conflict Management and Peace Operations" discussed what to do if partners are disfunctional and many of the modules are insufficiently invested in.
16.05.2025 10:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Really interesting discussions on the future of peacekeeping and peacebuilding on the eve of the 2025 Berlin Peacekeeping Ministerial. How to keep what we have afloat? peaceoperations.net @zif.bsky.social
12.05.2025 13:30 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0