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Peace, Security & Human Rights / Activity Brief

External action of the EU in crisis situations

01/04/2005 By Kristina Kausch, Luis Peral

On April 21 and 22, the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE), and the Centro Internacional de Información y Documentación Internacionales de Barcelona (CIDOB), in collaboration with the Toledo International Centre for Peace (CITpax) and the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (CEPC), organised a workshop in Madrid designed to identify and analyse practical problems in the development and implementation of EU crisis management mechanisms.

The present conclusions summarize the main problems identified and the suggestions made to resolve them.

The debate focused on three main areas of concern: nature and scope of EU crisis management, issues related to the development of civil and military capabilities (including the decision-making process, troop deployment, the division of labour amongst actors, rapid response, and recruitment of civilians), and analysis and evaluation.

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Keywords

Conflict resolution ESDP EU Europe European Union Peacebuilding Peacekeeping

Bio author: Kristina Kausch

Kristina Kausch is a Researcher at FRIDE's Democratisation Programme and focuses on European policies of democracy promotion in the European neighbourhood. Prior to joining FRIDE in November 2004, she worked for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) on programmes of good governance and democratisation, and at the Bertelsmann Foundation.

Bio author: Luis Peral

Luis Peral is PhD in Law, MA in Law of the European Union, MA in Law, BA in Political Sciences, with specialisation in International Relations (Universities Complutense and Carlos III of Madrid), and Diploma in English Law (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK). He has collaborated with FRIDE as Researcher and currently works as Director of the Conflict Prevention and Resolution programme at the Toledo International Centre for Peace. He also works at the Centre for Constitutional Studies of the Ministry of the Presidency under the Ramón y Cajal Research Programme of the Spanish Government, and is Senior Research Fellow at FRIDE.