Multilateralism / Working Paper
Spanish contribution to peace-building: reasons and proposals for the preparation of an action plan
10/08/2005 By Luis Peral
Over the last few years, democratic and developed States, the United Nations and regional organisations, particularly the European Union, have been strengthening their civil capabilities to contribute to providing peace and social stability conditions and to democratically restructuring countries affected by armed conflicts or by situations of serious crisis and institutional collapse.
This Working Paper proposes that Spain be fully incorporated into this trend, assuming the responsibility, and even the leadership role in some cases, attributable to it.
Reasons are related to the rapid evolution of the European action framework and to commitments effectively assumed by Spain, taking into account the deficiencies herein analysed not only in the institutional arena but also in relation to the availability and foreseeability in the sphere of civil capabilities.
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Multilateralism PeacebuildingBio 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.
