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Strengthening Global Peace and Security for Development

European External Action Service 

EU activities in the fields of crisis management and peace-building

Overview

The EU intervenes along the entire conflict and crisis cycle (early warning, conflict prevention, crisis response and management, post conflict peace-building, rehabilitation, capacity building and reconstruction).

Comprehensive approaches to crisis management in context of security and development nexus as set out in the European Security Strategy (2003).

EU actions in crisis and conflict countries in the world, linking both short-term and long-term interventions.

EU Toolbox

Early warning and conflict assessments (EU Delegation reports, EU watch-lists, SITCEN/Crisis Room)

Policy dialogue with third countries

Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) initiatives

Financial instruments linking relief, rehabilitation and long term development

European Union Delegations

Circa 5.000 staff in 136 locations

EU activities in the fields of conflict prevention, crisis response, crisis management and peace-

building

IfS Crisis Response and CSDP Missions 2007-2010

EU External Assistance Financial Instruments

Humanitarian aid instrument

Geographical development instruments (ENPI, IPA, DCI, EDF)

Thematic instruments (EIDHR)

With direct impact on security & development nexus:

Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)

Instrument for Stability (IfS)

Current Multi-annual Financial Framework – the overall budgetary background for all of the above instruments and mechanisms - runs until 2013. Initial internal discussions have commenced regarding the next Framework.

EU external action policy-makers

European External Action Service (EEAS) – assists the EU High Representative (Catherine Ashton) with respect to the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy

- includes EU Delegations in third countries

European Commission: - DEVCO: responsible for development and co-operation issues - ECHO: responsible for humanitarian affairs - FPI (Foreign Policy Instruments Service) : financial

implementation of some external action financial instruments

European Parlimament: in particular, the Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET)

EEAS Provisional Organigramme

EU activities in the fields of conflict prevention and peace-building

Conflict Prevention and the European External Action Service (EEAS)

EEAS should facilitate even more coherent, multi-dimensional and effective EU action and further strengthen the EU’s comprehensive approach to crisis prevention and response on a worldwide scale

Important to ensure continued focus on conflict prevention and peace-building in the proposed EEAS structures. Inter alia, given the Increasing international focus on these aspects – OSCE, OECD, UN, EU, AU.

Conflict prevention structures of EEAS envisaged to operate in close synergy and be co-located with Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments Service (FPI) in order to ensure the swift delivery notably of IfS and CFSP/CSDP actions.

EEAS to be responsible for the strategic programming of the IfS, FPI to be responsible for (financial) implementation.

EU’s engagement with its partners on peace-building issues

Instrument for Stability (IfS) only specifically dedicated EU financial instrument on crisis response and peace-building.

IfS implements i) short-term crisis response actions, and ii) long-term stabilisation measures relating to trans-regional threats, non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and crisis-preparedness capacity-building.

The IfS crisis preparedness component aims to:

foster a dialogue with civil society on peace-building issues and to enhance their capacity to engage in conflict prevention, early warning and crisis response activities

work with international peace-building partners, notably UN organizations, on jointly developing tools and mechanisms to improve the EU’s response to crisis situations

develop further the early warning capacity of key regional organizations, including the African Union and the League of Arab States

complement the efforts of EU Member States with regard to the training of civilian and police experts to participate in crisis stabilisation missions

EU’s engagement with civil society on peace-building issues

Civil Society Dialogue Network – managed by the European Peace-building Liaison Office (EPLO) but open to all relevant civil society actors– provides a forum for civil society to engage with EU policy-makers on peace-building issues (for more see www.eplo.org)

EU Delegations engage extensively with civil society in-country

Support for civil society capacity-building activities in conflict-prone or conflict-aftected countries under IfS crisis preparedness component

Extensive working with civil society within the context of IfS short-term crisis response measures

CSDP missions often specifically tasked under their mandates to engage with civil society

Andrew Byrne

Conflict Prevention, Peace-building and Mediation

Directorate for Conflict Prevention and Security Policy

Tel: 00-32-2-2954868

E-mail: [email protected]