The responsibility to contribute
By Robert Matthews (07/10/2008)
This comment, which is based on a presentation given by Robert Matthews before the Asembleia da República de Portugal on June 25, focuses on the role of Europe and the responsibility of industrial nations to protect the physical, economic and social well-being of peoples in developing and conflicted areas of the world. The international system needs to be strengthened to deal with this situation, and Europe could play a role by coordinating its soft power instruments in conflict and post-conflict situations.
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The international response to the Darfur crisis
By David Lanz (19/09/2008)
This comment looks at different dimensions of the international response to the Darfur crisis: humanitarian aid, mediation, peacekeeping, and justice. This response eclipses all other conflicts in Africa, but it has not been effective.
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The international response to Darfur
By Publicaciones FRIDE (12/05/2008)
The armed conflict and humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan has become a rallying cry for Western civil society, and is held to represent the worst series of ongoing human rights violations in the world today. Yet try as it might, the international community has not been able to stall the bloodshed, nor has the government in Khartoum shown great interest in pacifying the restive region. On Wednesday April 9, FRIDE held a closed seminar on international organisations’ response to the Darfur crisis. These are some of the questions that most concerned seminar participants.
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The UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti: analysis and recommendations for future mandates of the Mission
By Megan Burke, Amélie Gauthier (16/04/2008)
On 28 January 2008, representatives of Haitian civil society, donor governments and the United Nations were brought together by FRIDE in collaboration with the Canadian Permanent Mission to the United Nations to discuss the future of the MINUSTAH stabilisation mission in Haiti. This report relates the key points of discussion and recommendations from this meeting, divided into three main areas: the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti, state-building and regional cooperation.
Haiti: voices of the actors, a research project on the UN mission
By Amélie Gauthier (15/02/2008)
This Working Paper from FRIDE analyses the violence in Haiti and the response of the international community involved in implementing the MINUSTAH mandate. The information gathered in the interviews allows the actors to make their voices heard on many aspects of the situation in Haiti and to communicate their ideas to each other.
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Statebuilding: can the international community get it right?
By Megan Burke (14/01/2008)
Statebuilding efforts by the international community in states in crisis have had limited success. Most analyses have sought to improve outcomes by examining “lessons learned” in one or more cases. This publication take a step beyond previous critiques and questions the approach of the industry as a whole, asking: Can the international community effectively build states?
The responsibility to protect: from an ethical principle to an effective policy
By Juan Garrigues (23/11/2007)
The responsibility to protect represents a significant leap from previous debates, especially since the beginning of the 1990s, around the protection of groups threatened by genocide or violations of their human rights. The challenge remains for this ethical principle to become an effective policy.
Qué sucede con Iraq
By Mariano Aguirre Ernst (30/07/2007)
President Bush’s new initiative for the Israel-Palestine conflict, which leaves the democratically elected Hamas-led government out in the cold, has been met with deep scepticism from the Arab World.
Conflict prevention and the european response to states in crisis
By Ivan Briscoe (01/03/2007)
The European Union put conflict prevention at the heart of its foreign policy in 2001, but the new global security focus after September 11, confusion in Brussels and an overreliance on crisis management has obscured the need for deeper peace-building in fragile states.
Security in Haiti
By Amélie Gauthier (20/11/2006)
Comentary on the political and security situation in Haiti just before the Donor Conference oragnized in Madrid on November 30th, 2006.
Proliferation of light weapons and state crisis: challenges to post-war reconstruction
By Mabel González (03/11/2006)
Civilian Dimension of International Crisis Management in Spain:commitments, alternatives and advantages
By Juan Garrigues, Luis Peral, Gabriel Reyes (22/02/2006)
This paper explores the possibilities and challenges for the creation and deployment of civilian capabilities for international crisis management in Spain.
Sudan: intensive diplomacy, differed intervention and lack of effective protection for the population
By Luis Peral (14/12/2004)
In Sudan although the international community has been late and provided an insufficient answer, or precisely because of that, the Darfur massacre has to be constantly present in the United Nations reform, which has apparently gained new strength.
And, likewise, it must direct European efforts to consolidate a Security and Defence Policy that can contribute to putting the aims of the International Law into practice in the framework of a future European Constitution.
