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EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – Human Rights and Gender Mainstreaming in CSDP missions: the cases of EUCAP Sahel Mali and EUCAP Sahel Niger

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

The importance of integrating gender and human rights in the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has been recognised by the EU and its Member States in several policy documents, most recently in the EU Global Strategy and the Council of the EU’s ‘CFSP Report – Our priorities in 2016’. Its most visible translation […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – Navigating the risks in Counter-terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism: Insights from Kenya and Tunisia

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

The rise in terror attacks worldwide has increased political pressure to respond effectively. Governments have earmarked more funding for counter-terrorism (CT) measures and programmes countering or preventing violent extremism (CVE/PVE). But what impact do these programmes actually have on preventing conflict and building peace? In its recent research, Saferworld has critically reviewed CT and CVE/PVE […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – World Bank Syria report: ‘The Toll of War: Economic and Social Consequences of the Conflict in Syria’

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

In this EPLO Brown Bag Lunch discussion, Saroj Kumar Jha, World Bank Director for the Mashreq region, and Harun Onder, lead author of the report, will present and discuss the World Bank’s findings on the economic and social impact of the war in Syria. The report entitled ‘The Toll of War: Economic and Social Consequences […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – Human Rights and Gender Mainstreaming in CSDP Missions: Where does the EU stand?

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

Human rights, the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda and gender equality are key elements to ensure human security. They are increasingly taken into account in the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions. In the ‘CFSP Report – Our priorities in 2017’, the EU and its Member States committed to continue ‘promoting the […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – The Kosovo Specialist Court and Transitional Justice in Kosovo

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, widely referred to as the “Kosovo Specialist Court”, is a hybrid international court established within Kosovo’s judicial system and located in The Hague. Its purpose is to try cases of war crimes which occurred between 1998 and 2000, involving the mainly ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – The 5th AU-EU Summit: an opportunity to reset African Union-European Union relations?

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

Relations between the African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) reached a nadir in 2016 following serious disagreements over European payments to AU peacekeepers in Somalia. The fifth AU-EU summit, which will take place on 29-30 November in Abidjan, presents a chance to reinvigorate the partnership if both sides can deal openly with disagreements, and […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – EPLO Brown Bag Lunch with the Crisis Management Initiative – Experiences with the Critical Friend method for Monitoring & Evaluation

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

For those of us working on peace, development and security, M&E is ultimately a way for organisations and funders to ensure that our engagements in already complicated, fragile and high-risk contexts are as effective as possible and avoid doing harm. The Critical Friend method emerged to respond to the limitations of traditional evaluations on effectiveness […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – Peace and Stability Strategies for the Private Sector in Afghanistan

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

In the Joint Communication ‘Elements for an EU Strategy on Afghanistan’ published in July 2017, the European Commission and the European External Action Service emphasised the need to support economic development and regional connectivity (i.e. improving transit, transport and energy corridors). The Afghan government has been stressing the need for investment in the construction, transport […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – After the Summit: what’s next in post-Abidjan AU-EU relations in 2018?

European Peacebuilding Liaison Office Avenue de Tervueren 12, Brussels

Relations between the African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) are at a turning point in their history. The EU is pushing for a renewed partnership that entails an enhanced responsibility from its African partners, who in turn stress the need not to base the relationship on migration-related issues. The fifth AU-EU Summit, which took […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – Early action and the Responsibility to Protect: exchange of views with civil society

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

The concept of Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) has become an important part of the normative framework related to peace and conflict. While its operationalisation remains a challenge, the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU) and civil society organisations have developed new policies, tools and mechanisms to improve the use and effectiveness of this principle. […]