Armed Conflicts and Conflict Management

Feature topic Armed conflict and terrorism

New SIPRI book: Stepanova, E., Terrorism in Asymmetrical Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects, SIPRI Research Report 23 (Oxford University Press (OUP): Oxford, 2008), 200 p.
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New chapter: Stepanova, E., 'Islamist terrorism as a threat to Europe: the scope and limits of the challenge,' in Demet Ulusoy (ed.), Political Violence, Organized Crime, Terrorism and Youth (IOS Press: Amsterdam, 2008), pp. 141-158.

Other new publications

New SIPRI Policy Brief: Stepanova, Ekaterina, South Ossetia and Abkhazia: placing the conflict in context, SIPRI Policy Brief no. 1 (November 2008).

New SIPRI Insight: De Koning, Ruben, Resource–conflict links in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, SIPRI Insight No. 2 (October 2008).

New co-edited volume: Daniel D., Taft P. and Wiharta Sh. (eds.), Peace Operations: Trends, Progress, and Prospects (Georgetown University Press: Washington, DC, 2008).

Other featured topics
Afghanistan in focus
Local ownership in the rule of law
Armed conflict and transnational crime

SIPRI Yearbook 2008:
Chapter 2: Trends in armed conflicts
Chapter 3: Planning and deploying peace operations
For more details, see SIPRI Yearbook 2008 summary

Datasets
SIPRI database on multilateral peace operations
UCDP data on major armed conflicts

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Project description

The study of violent conflicts has been a standing element of SIPRI’s work since its foundation in 1966 and the Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Project provides the main forum in SIPRI for conflict-related research. The project continuously analyzes violent conflict around the world, its impact on the human security of local populations and wider political consequences. The annual chapter on trends in armed conflicts in the SIPRI Yearbook summarizes the past year’s developments, providing an analytical narrative of causes and dynamics of contemporary conflicts, as well as dominant trends within the international community to manage and resolve violent conflict.
The analysis of multilateral peace operations is another major part of the project’s work. SIPRI is unique in providing comprehensive empirical data on all UN and non-UN, multilateral peace operations around the world. This data is publicly available in the SIPRI Yearbook. A chapter examining current themes and surveying the achievements and shortcomings of multilateral peace operations is produced annually for the SIPRI Yearbook.
The project’s research takes a comprehensive approach to the study of violence and to the efforts to prevent, manage and resolve conflict. Especially attention is devoted to the situating of conflict analysis within international policy on security and development more broadly.

For more detail, please follow the links below.

Trends in armed conflicts

Multilateral peace operations

Private security companies

Past projects

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