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Closing climate security gaps requires more reliable data on climate finance
To ensure the new $300 billion climate finance goal benefits the most vulnerable, especially those affected by conflict, we need a clearer picture of how it is spent.
Long-term investment is essential to addressing protracted food crises—even amid conflict
Recent initiatives in Yemen, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa show how aid actors across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus can rise to the challenge of strengthening food systems in fragile settings.
To reduce violent conflict, support non-violent resistance movements
The wealth and power generated by kleptocratic networks help to put actors who drive conflict beyond the reach of international institutions responsible for maintaining peace and security. This blog explains why engaging non-violent resistance movements and the non-traditional institutions they create is therefore critical to building sustainable peace and security.
Demilitarizing environmental protection will benefit Colombia’s biodiversity
Successive Colombian governments have pursued an increasingly militarized approach to environmental protection, which in many cases has undermined and even criminalized ethnic communities and subsistence farmers who are vital to environmental stewardship and conservation. This blog explores why this is happening and what needs to be done.
Beyond food security: The potential gendered consequences of food aid
In conflict zones marked by food insecurity, men and women experience unique challenges, and food aid can impact them differently. While aid efforts seek to address these issues, they can sometimes unintentionally deepen gender inequalities, particularly for women. This blog examines these effects and how to mitigate them.
Backgrounders
As undersea cables and pipelines become apparent targets of hybrid warfare, a Law of the Sea expert explains how coastal states can better protect them and remove legal barriers to interdicting and prosecuting the ships suspected of being involved.
Using SIPRI data, this backgrounder looks at how six of the top 10 exporters of major arms have adjusted their policies in the past year.
In this Q&A, Dr Pierre Thévenin, a Researcher in SIPRI's European Security Programme, explains what Russia's new maritime law means for peace and security in the Baltic.
This backgrounder investigates the circumstances behind a wave of consolidation in the arms industry. To do this, it uses data on mergers and acquisitions among European (excluding Russia) and North American companies appearing in the SIPRI Top 100 in the 10-year period 2014–23.
This topical backgrounder unpacks recent trends in major arms imports and exports in the Middle East and North Africa.
What does the new SIPRI arms transfers data tell us about dependence on US imports, and what lies behind European procurement decisions?
Nuclear expert Robert E. Kelley talks about hype, misinformation and genuine proliferation risks around the smuggling of nuclear materials.
The Ukrainian arms industry has seen prodigious growth and modernization since Russia's invasion, but its long-term viability still hangs in the balance.
States have varying understandings and practices when it comes to applying export controls to the provision of cyber-surveillance tools under a software-as-a-service model. The potential gaps and loopholes this leaves need to be addressed.
Autonomous weapons systems raise profound questions about the human role in the use of force. How those questions get answered on the international stage, or whether they get answered at all, currently hangs in the balance.
Responsible behaviour in military AI starts with responsible procurement
As states rush to deploy military artificial intelligence capabilities, they should keep in mind that responsible behaviour principles apply even at the procurement stage.
Before it’s too late: Why a world of interacting AI agents demands new safeguards
Increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems cooperating at scale could have unpredictable results for international peace and security.
Europe should help repair the damage to non-proliferation and international law from the attacks on Iran
European leaders’ responses to the recent Israeli and United States attacks against Iranian nuclear facilities have been striking for both their muted tone and their apparent acceptance of violations of international law.
NATO’s new spending target: challenges and risks associated with a political signal
NATO’s new alliance-wide spending target of 5 per cent of GDP sends a strong political message, but at what cost?
Mineral spoils in Ukraine: A poor foundation for peace and recovery
A new USA–Ukraine agreement gives Washington a share in Ukraine’s future mineral resource revenues. Presented as a step towards peace, the deal offers no security guarantees, bypasses Ukrainian law and relies on uncertain economic assumptions.
Blurring conventional–nuclear boundaries: Nordic developments, global implications
Plans to develop and deploy advanced weapon systems in the Nordic region are meant to strengthen NATO’s deterrence, but they risk having unintended consequences for security.
Look before we leap: Peace, security and the second quantum revolution
A new generation of quantum technology promises to transform military capabilities and much more. There are profound security implications that demand a coordinated governance response.
Bringing the space–nuclear nexus into multilateral discussions
This essay briefly summarizes the potential escalation risks at the space–nuclear nexus. It also considers some of the difficulties in addressing this nexus in existing multilateral forums and suggests ways to overcome them.
Synergies between women, peace and security and the governance of WMD
Closer integration of the women, peace and security agenda with the governance of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons could have benefits for both.
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.