As a peace project itself, the EU has a unique comparative advantage in promoting nonviolent forms of conflict resolution and contributing to long-term, sustainable peace across the world through its peacebuilding and development instruments.
Alongside initiatives like the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), the EU plays a key role in global stability. However, security and defence alone cannot address the complex array of challenges facing our world today.
As multilateralism is increasingly being questioned, the rest of the world is counting on the EU as an advocate for cooperation and diplomacy.
In this letter, we would like to highlight four priorities that are crucial to strengthening and expanding the EU’s role as a global peace actor, and that you can put on the agenda as future MEPs:
Financial support to peace and gender equality
Partnerships with civil society
Response to conflict
Connecting peacebuilding with all EU external instruments