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Multilateralism / Working Paper

EU instruments for conflict prevention

06/04/2005 By Javier Niño Pérez

This paper examines the array of tools and mechanisms of the EU in the field of conflict prevention, contrasting short-term and long-term instruments whilst looking in particular at the case of sanctions and military preventive deployments.

The number, nature and scope of these instruments have significantly evolved over time to take account of the constant developments of the European integration process and notably the increasingly important role of the EU in the area of foreign policy.

Nonetheless, the EU still faces the challenge of approaching, in an effective manner, the whole range of conflict prevention and crisis management strategies and of integrating in its overall preventive strategy the new instruments introduced by the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the European Security and Defense Policy.

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Keywords

Conflict prevention EU EU Foreign Policy

Bio author: Javier Niño Pérez

He holds a law degree from the Universidad de Valladolid (Spain) and two Masters' degrees from the Free University of Brussels and the College of Europe (Belgium) on European Law and European Studies respectively. Javier Niño Pérez is Administrator at the Conflict Prevention, Crisis Management, and ACP Political Issues Unit in the European Commission's Directorate General for External Relations. He joined the European Commission in 1994 and has previously worked as a trade negotiator and on development cooperation issues. He is a member of the OECD/ DAC Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation (CPDC).