CSDP missions and operations are some of the most visible crisis management tools of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). In recent years, the EU and its member states have taken concrete steps to ensure gender and human rights advisers are deployed to all EU missions and operations. Their specific roles and responsibilities […]

Countering violent extremism (CVE) is everywhere we look. It is at the top of global security and political agendas; it makes headlines in domestic politics in many countries; it is the buzz word in many of the meetings we attend; and for those of us in the international peacebuilding sector, it is rapidly making its […]

On 27 March 2014, the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the culmination of efforts and peace talks which started in 1997. Since 2009, an International Contact Group (ICG) accompanied the parties towards a landmark agreement aimed at ending decades of conflict […]