Backgrounders

Is the United Nations Uniformed Gender Parity Strategy on track to reach its goals?

Since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution1325 on women, peace and security in 2000, there have been several attempts to increase women’s participation in peacekeeping operations.

Connecting the dots on the triple nexus

The concept ‘triple nexus’ is used to capture the interlinkages between the humanitarian, development and peace sectors. Specifically, it refers to attempts in these fields to work together more coherently in order to more effectively meet peoples’ needs, mitigate vulnerabilities and move towards sustainable peace.

Gender training for police peacekeepers: Approaching two decades of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325

As Resolution 1325 approaches its 20th anniversary, it is a good time to take stock of how it has changed the way in which the UN acts by focusing on the training of police peacekeepers. 

Police Reform in Northern Ireland: Achievements and Future Challenges

Policing played a central role in the long sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.

Revising the EU Dual-use Regulation: Challenges and opportunities for the trilogue process

Legal challenges to EU member states’ arms exports to Saudi Arabia: Current status and potential implications

Introduction

Global and regional trends in multilateral peace operations, 2009–18

On the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIP

The crucial role of the military in the Venezuelan crisis

In January 2019 Venezuela’s opposition-led National Assembly swore in congressman Juan Guaidó as the country’s interim president.

Pursuing elusive stability in the Sahel

Despite an expanding cast of security actors responding to conflicts in Mali, insecurity is escalating and spreading across porous borders throughout the Sahel region. The attack on 23 March 2019, the deadliest in the region since 2013, by a Dozo hunting militia killing at least 160 Fulani villagers in central Mali near the border with Burkina Faso, indicates an increasingly volatile security environment with entrenched, intercommunal grievances.

Saudi Arabia, armaments and conflict in the Middle East

This topical backgrounder puts a spotlight on armament developments in Saudi Arabia, the country with the highest levels of military spending and arms imports in the Middle East. It aims to contribute to the efforts by SIPRI to gain a better understanding of the impact of militarization on security, conflict, peace and development in the region.