CSDN Video – Understanding Fragility: How Can the EU Help Build Resilience?
Fragility is multifaceted, driven by conflict, economic pressure, or environmental shocks, but fuelled by states’ limited capacity to absorb them. According to the OECD, highly and extremely fragile states hold 25% of the world’s population, yet account for 72% of the world’s extreme poor. To mark our new video on fragility, we’re looking at why this matters for EU external action, and what tools the EU already has to respond.
Climate, Peace and Security: Entry points for EU engagement in complex partnership contexts – Perspectives on the MENA region
This CSDN Meeting Report presents the discussions from a June 2026 online Geographic Meeting on the climate-peace-security nexus, drawing on experiences from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen. Peacebuilding practitioners and EU officials examined how climate and environmental pressures interact with conflict dynamics across the region. Climate pressures rarely drive conflict on their own. They […]
The EU’s Engagement in Syria: Perceptions and Recommendations from Civil Society
This CSDN Country Briefing Paper draws on interviews with international and local NGOs conducted between March and June 2026, mapping how Syria’s civil society landscape has shifted since the fall of the Assad regime and where the EU fits into that picture. Rivalries set aside during the fight against the previous regime have re-emerged along […]
Advancing EU Mediation Efforts in an Unpredictable World
This CSDN Meeting Report presents the discussions from a June 2026 Policy Meeting on the changing global mediation landscape, bringing together mediation practitioners and EU officials to examine what a more transactional environment means for the EU’s role. Participants described a mediation landscape reshaped by the growing prominence of middle powers such as Qatar, Oman […]
Assessing Trends in Peace, Security, Stability and Response to Crises for Global Initiatives under the Next EU Multiannual Financial Framework (2028-2034)
This CSDN Meeting Report presents the discussions from the July 2026 Funding Instruments Meeting on trends in peace, security, stability and crisis response funding under the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028–2034).
Maintaining a strong civil society engagement in a revamped EU delegation network
This CSDN Discussion Paper examines what the ongoing restructuring of the EU Delegation network means for civil society engagement on peace and security.
CSDN FIM Survey results – Assessing trends in peace, security, stability and response to crises for global initiatives under the next EU MFF
This CSDN Background Paper presents the results of a participant survey conducted ahead of the July 2026 CSDN Funding Instruments Meeting on trends in peace, security, stability and crisis response funding under the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028–2034).
Climate, Peace and Security: Entry points for EU engagement in complex partnership contexts. Perspectives on the Sahel
This CSDN meeting report documents the discussions from the online Geographic Meeting held on 3 June 2026, bringing together civil society organisations and EU institutions to explore how climate and environmental programming can open entry points for engagement in contexts where formal diplomatic frameworks are limited
EU Frameworks on Climate, Peace and Security (EN / FR)
This background paper traces the evolution of EU policy at the intersection of climate, peace and security, from early recognition of climate change as a threat multiplier to the current geopolitical moment.
Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Crisis Response in the Next Multiannual Financial Framework
This CSDN Background Paper provides the policy and budgetary context for the April 2026 Policy Meeting on conflict prevention, peacebuilding and crisis response in the next Multiannual Financial Framework.