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Where next for the Women, Peace and Security agenda?
As the Women, Peace and Security agenda approaches its 25th anniversary, is the key to progress pushing for a new Security Council resolution or stepping up implementation?
Women, Peace and Security: Bridging the global–local divide through contextual relevance
This blog explores two approaches to bridging the global–local divide: prioritizing inclusion within participation and strengthening the ‘connective tissue’ between global and local WPS movements.
More effective aid by design: Integrating food, climate and peace
This blog explores why approaches that integrate food security, climate resilience and peacebuilding interventions have been slow to emerge.
The difficult journey to trust in conflict-affected societies
This blog explores processes from past reconciliation efforts that are relevant for rebuilding trust.
Navigating the Red Sea: Addressing threats and harnessing potential
This blog post gives an overview of current issues in the Red Sea region and possible ways to address them, building on the outcomes of a panel discussion at the 2024 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development.
Backgrounders
This backgrounder explores how the war in Gaza has affected the arms export policy and practice of six of the world’s top 10 exporters of major conventional arms.
This backgrounder looks at the principles and sharing mechanisms for these direct funding arrangements, with a focus on transparency and accountability.
SIPRI presents its latest data on multilateral peace operations in 2023. This topical backgrounder summarizes the key findings of the new data along with important developments related to multilateral peace operations during the year.
Chinese and Russian approaches to peacebuilding are part of the evolving and indeed contested landscape of international peace and security. Understanding their impacts requires understanding the similarities and differences between them.
Both official development assistance and military spending have surged among OECD donor countries since February 2022. What role has Ukraine-related spending had in this rise and how have governments balanced spending priorities?
A new political forum could help make the EU’s strategic trade controls more strategic—if it is allowed to
This essay presents some suggestions for how a proposed ‘forum for political coordination’ could help to coordinate and plug the gaps in the European Union’s strategic trade controls.
NATO: A new need for some old ideas
As NATO marks its first 75 years, its core mission has arguably come full circle: deterrence and territorial defence in Europe. Remembering key lessons from cold war diplomacy could help it to navigate the challenges ahead.
More investment in nuclear deterrence will not make Europe safer
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the nuclear threats it has made since have driven a new wave of militarization in Europe. Amid rising tensions, this SIPRI Essay argues for caution in the nuclear domain to prevent escalation and maintain a balance in Europe's security landscape.
Climate finance and geopolitics: The China–US factor
Climate action is caught in the increasingly volatile push-and-pull between cooperative global governance and great power competition, a fraught dynamic readily apparent in relations between China and the United States. China–US bilateral relations are widely acknowledged as a keystone for international efforts to address climate change.
Towards an agenda for gender perspectives in space security
This SIPRI Essay explores why women’s voices and gender-based vulnerabilities need to be better reflected in space security governance.