Tutkimus ja kehittäminen

Civilian crisis management operations often take place in fragile, conflict-affected, or post-conflict countries, where young people constitute a significant majority of the population. Unstable conditions affect youth in many ways, yet they are frequently excluded from formal decision-making processes and peace-building efforts. In the new policy brief our former research and development intern Riina Pekkarinen … Lue lisää

Over the past two decades, transitional justice has become an integral part of post-conflict peacebuilding and international peace operations. Both scholars and practitioners in the peacebuilding field have repeatedly underlined a mutually reinforcing relationship between peace, justice and peacebuilding. Despite the widely recognised importance of transitional justice in the unification of societies and the building … Lue lisää

CMC organised a topical seminar bringing together actors from civilian crisis management, civil society and peace mediation. The participants discussed how the local civil society organizations (CSOs) could be further empowered and how the crisis management and peace operations together with international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) could help in this. The keynote presenters Dr. Tetiana Kyselova … Lue lisää

Lakkautukset sekä paikallisten aiempaa negatiivisempi suhtautuminen rauhanturva- ja kriisinhallintaoperaatioihin ovat viime aikoina varjostaneet operaatioiden toimintaa etenkin Afrikassa. Trendi on herättänyt kysymyksiä laajojen operaatioiden tulevaisuudesta ja se voidaan myös nähdä jatkumona kasvavasta epäsuosiosta liberaalia rauhanrakennusta kohtaan (Dunton ym. 2023, 215, 219). Etenkin YK:n rauhanturvaoperaatiot ovat nojanneet vahvasti liberaalin demokratian arvoihin. Niiden mandaatit ovat olleet moniulotteisia (Coleman … Lue lisää