On 2 February, SIPRI and its partners launched the Research & Action for Peace (REcAP) Network. The REcAP Network is a collaboration between SIPRI, the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, the Danish Refugee Council, and the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Senegal.
Since 2015, the central regions of Mali have become hotspots of insecurity. Jihadist groups, military operations, intercommunal violence, and conflicts between pastoralists and farmers frequently converge, making life difficult and dangerous for the people living there.
Today, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) launches a new Reflection Film that outlines and describes for the first time how SIPRI and its partner in Mali, Point Sud, collect data in central Mali, using quantitative and qualitative research methods, to understand the perceptions of the local population.
Today, SIPRI launches a new film capturing insights from international and Malian actors on the complexity of the crisis in Central Mali, in an effort to understand the nature of the conflict and ways of addressing it. The film, entitled ‘Understanding and addressing the root causes of conflicts in Central Mali’, provides an overview of SIPRI’s work in Central Mali as part of the three-year ‘Central Mali Project for Security and Development’.
Today, SIPRI launches a new Reflection film, capturing the reactions of key international and Malian actors to the research findings in SIPRI’s latest report on Mali, ‘The Challenges of Governance, Development and Security in the Central Regions of Mali’.
Since 2015, Mali’s central regions of Mopti and Ségou have become insecure hotspots at the confluence of interconnected challenges in terms of governance, development and security.
Despite the deployment of international and regional troops to support national armed and security forces in Mali, instability has escalated and spread across borders throughout the Sahel. The Sahel countries—Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger—share not only historical trajectories, trade routes and communities, but now also a social, economic, political and human crisis. To confront these common challenges, the Sahel countries are seeking ways to combat new threats, which include violent extremism and increasing intercommunal tensions.
SIPRI, together with the delegation of the European Union (EU) to Mali and Point Sud, convened a forum in Bamako on the topic ‘Governance, Security and Development in Central Mali’.
Today, SIPRI, the European Union (EU) and Point Sud are pleased to release a new film on governance, security and socio-economic conditions in central Mali. The film is part of a three-year project called ‘Mali-Centre for Security and Development’.
SIPRI was pleased to participate in the 2019 Almedalen Week in Visby, Gotland (30 June–7 July). This yearly event is considered to be one of the most important political, social and business forums in Sweden.
Today, SIPRI launches a new Reflection film on the conflict in central Mali, calling for a better understanding of local dynamics in order to resolve conflict and build peace in the region.
On 31 January, Malian civil society members and their partners SIPRI and CONASCIPAL presented the first Civil Society White Book for Peace and Security to help address security challenges for the Malian population.
(Bamako, 31 January 2019) — Today, Malian civil society members and their partners SIPRI and CONASCIPAL present the first Civil Society White Book for Peace and Security to help address security challenges for the Malian population.
SIPRI has produced a series of interview films spotlighting people’s perceptions of security in Mali. A range of voices from the country’s different regions are represented—all of which belong to members of the Monitoring Groups for Peace and Security (MGPS) within the SIPRI–CONASCIPAL peacebuilding and civil-society strengthening programme in Mali.
SIPRI and its partner organization CONASCIPAL held the third National Forum of Civil Society for Peace and Security in Mali.
SIPRI, in cooperation with the European Union delegation in Mali, assembled representatives from two regions of central Mali to map security concerns and discuss ways to improve the development and security situation.
SIPRI is pleased to announce the publication of a new Insights Paper, entitled ‘Central Mali: violence, local perspectives and diverging narratives’.
SIPRI launched the inaugural meeting of the Malian Women’s Network for Security Council Resolution 1325 on 23 and 24 November 2017 in Bamako with the support of the Embassy of Sweden in Mali and in partnership with the Malian National Coalition of Civil Society for Peace and the Fight Against the Proliferation of Light Weapons (CONASCIPAL).
SIPRI is pleased to announce the publication of a new Insights paper informed by an in depth study on security perceptions in Mali.
SIPRI Associate Senior Fellow Sten Hagberg presents results from a study on secuity in Mali.
SIPRI's partner organization in Mali, CONASCIPAL, produce short-film on peacebuilding work in Mali
SIPRI and its partner organization CONASCIPAL launched the preliminary results of their security perception mapping study, covering the whole of Mali.
SIPRI and CONASCIPAL set up the Civil Society White Book Committee in Mali which will present policy options and concrete recommendations for long-standing stability in the country.
More than a year after the peace agreement in Mali, SIPRI is pleased to announce the continuation of its onsite work in Mali in partnership with the Bamako-based organization CONASCIPAL (National Coalition of Civil Society for Peace and the Fight against the Proliferation of Small Arms). The work closely involves Malian civil society organizations to help build a durable and stable peace in the country.
In light of civil society's important role in peacebuilding, SIPRI has been supporting a process together with CONASCIPAL to develop a strategic vision for civil society contributions to peace and national unity in Mali. CONASCIPAL presented this strategic vision, Vision Stratégique de la Société Civile por la Paix et l’Unité National au Mali, at a seminar in Bamako, Mali.
SIPRI and CONASCIPAL held a seminar to launched the report: Causes et manifestations des conflits au Mali: Une perspective de la socété civile.
This consultative round table produced further insights into existing perceptions and perspectives on the causes, manifestations and possible solutions to the political and security crises in Mali.
15 September 2015, Bamako, Mali
The impact of the Malian crisis, which began in January 2012 with a surge of armed violence in northern Mali, is felt across the country. While a peace accord was signed on 15 May and 20 June 2015, its implementation is faced with serious challenges. Achievement of a lasting peace will require commitment and contributions from a number of actors at all levels of Malian society.
On 20 February in Bamako, Mali, SIPRI and its Malian partner organization, Conascipal, held a consultative round table meeting with government representatives and civil society groups about the causes of the political and security situation in Mali, and the challenges involved in building peace in the country.