Peacekeeping and peacebuilding
Since the end of the cold war, peacekeeping and peacebuilding issues have been core elements of the work of the Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme. The project collects data on all ongoing multilateral peace operations, surveys the significant shifts in trends in multilateral peace operations and considers their impact on current policy issues for international efforts in post-conflict peacebuilding. Themes such as the efforts to develop and enhance the institutional capacities of the UN and of regional organizations in crisis management operations, the financial costs of operations, as well as issues of legitimacy and transparency are examined in-depth. The project also studies on specific peacebuilding tasks such as the rule of law and transitional justice.
Analysis is confined to peace operations that are conducted under the authority of the UN, of regional organizations and/or by ad hoc coalitions of states sanctioned by the UN. The project produces an annual chapter that discusses the main developments and challenges, and an appendix which lists comprehensive data on all the multilateral peace operations reviewed for the SIPRI Yearbook.
The programme partners and collaborates with a number of institutes. In particular, SIPRI is a contributing partner of data on non-UN operations to:
- Center on International Cooperation’s Annual Review of Global Peace Operations
- ISIS Europe Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) Map
and a member of:
SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operation Deployments
This SIPRI map presents a snapshot of multilateral peace operation deployments worldwide in September 2009. Using data drawn from the SIPRI Multilateral Peace Operations Database, it shows where missions are taking place, how large they are and which organizations and coalitions are conducting them. The map is in A3 format.
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Research Issues
SIPRI Multilateral Peace Operations Database
Rule of law and transitional justice in post-conflict peacebuilding
Civilian contribution to peace operations
Role of military in humanitarian assistance (closed)
