EU Peacebuilding Missions: Developing Security in Post-conflict Nations (Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict)

✍ Scribed by Kieran Doyle

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 174
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the EU's approach to peacebuilding and questions the EU global role as crisis manager and capacity builder. It highlights the significant contributions of the EU to civilian peacebuilding and also critically evaluates the activities of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) within their rule of law and human rights peacebuilding missions. It draws on the author's twenty years of experience working on CSDP and EU defence matters including his research on EU police missions in Africa and Middle East. It exposes emergent tension between peacebuilding in its neighbourhood and security issues. It examines the practice of EU peacebuilding including performance of its missions and how deployed personnel can professionalise their diplomatic (mediation, negotiation and dialogue facilitation) capacity to fully realise the potential of missions and exploit opportunities for expanding the vision of peace. It formulates convincing policy recommendations for the future planning of EU external relations in post conflict environments and offers valuable insights into how to connect with people and communities in the aftermath of conflict.

✦ Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
About This Book
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
1 Context for Common Security and Defence Civilian Missions
Introduction
Context
Why Is This Study Important?
Conceptualisation of Peace-Building
Origins and Evolution of Common Security and Defence Policy
Civilian CSDP Compact (2018)
Legal Foundations of Current CSDP Intervention Capabilities
CSDP and Impact of Lisbon Treaty
2016 Global Strategy
Current Activities of CSDP
EU Imperative Towards Security and Peace-Building
Why are the EU Doing This Work?
Evolution of Context for CSDP Conflict Interventions and Missions
The Dynamic of Governance Within Conflict, Security, and Peace-Building—What Does Concepts of Security in Fragile States Look Like?
Government: What Is it? What Constitutes a Strong Government?
How Does CSDP Connect with These Environments?
Promotion of Human Rights
Civilian Crisis Management
Implications of Ukraine on the CSDP Environment
Conclusion
Bibliography
2 Civilian CSDP and Fitting in on the Ground Through an Integrated Approach
Introduction
Current Activities
Categorisation of Current Missions (Adapted from University of Navarra, 2022)
CSDP Mission Mandates
EU Delegations
What Is the Integrated Approach?
EU Integrated Approach in the Horn of Africa—Example of Its Application
Operational Context of Somalia in 2010
The Application of the EU Integrated Approach
Assessment of Impact
Coherence of EU Peace-Building Approach
Conclusion
Bibliography
3 Theoretical Debates on Interventions and Multilateral Peace-Building Interventions
Introduction
Typologies of Violence
Paradigms of Intervention
Normative Power Within International Peacekeeping and Peace-Building
Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building—Interacting with Local Communities Through CSDP
Human Relations Paradigm and Peace-Building
Humiliation
Empathy and International Norms
Empathy
Challenges
Norm-Setting
Human Security and CSDP
Operationalising a Peace Process
Positions
Interests
Needs
Maintaining Momentum
Conclusion
Bibliography
4 CSDP Mission Performance: An Evaluation
Introduction
Mission Planning and Mandate Implementation
Legal Preconditions and Planning for Missions
Assessments and Self Evaluation
Competencies (of Mission Staff) Were Based on the Mandate and not the Context
Internal Challenges of the EU
Local Ownership and Relationship with Host Country Relationship as a Feature of CSDP Interventions
Working with Local Actors
Why Have CSDP Interventions Struggled to Live up to the EU’s Rhetoric on Local Ownership?
Working with International Counterparts
Civilian CSDP Missions and Multilateral Working with the UN
Situational Awareness
Is This Situational Awareness Improving?
Leadership and Management of Missions
Interoperability and Information Sharing
Achievement of Objectives
Conclusion
Bibliography
5 Knowing the Ground: Developing Security Through Local Engagement
Introduction
Implementing a Mandate
The Role of Mediation, Negotiation, and Dialogue Capacity in Understanding the Mission Environment
What Is Mediation, Negotiation, and Dialogue (MND) Facilitation?
Mediation, Negotiation, and Dialogue in UN Activities
The Role of Mediation, Negotiation, and Dialogue in EU Common Security and Defence Policy
The Case for Expansion of Mediation, Negotiation, and Dialogue in CSDP Missions
What Mediation, Negotiation, and Dialogue Tasks Are CSDP Mission Member Actually Performing?
Application of Mediation, Negotiation, and Dialogue in Security Sector Reform
Conclusion
Bibliography
6 ‘Political Missions with an Operational Capability’: How Do We Continue?
Introduction
Context
From Macro to Micro Interventions
Establishment of Networks
Proposal
Application Within Ukrainian Conflict
Conclusion
References
Index