Five years after Göteborg: The EU and its Conflict Prevention Potential
EPLO | 2006
Topic: EU und Friedensförderung
Over the last few years the European Union (EU) has become a leading international actor, increasing its engagement in the regions and countries affected or prone to violent conflict. The EU is a powerful economic actor that now provides the largest share of international development aid. It also has a wide range of policy instruments that enable it to be an important conflict prevention and crisis management actor. Nevertheless, the EU alone cannot respond to all the challenges. Its resources and capabilities are, and will remain, finite, which means that priorities have to be defined and partnerships need to be built and developed.
This report departs from evidence that - while conflict prevention as concept is not popular among most political decisions makers because of its lack of political revenue back home – preventive, coherent, and long-term engagement has large financial, global security, and human advantages. Conflict prevention is more of a process than a policy as such. It is a way to design, shape, and implement policies in a way which encourages the attitudes, the behaviour, and the structural conditions in society - including political and military structures - that lay down the foundations for peaceful, stable and ultimately prosperous social and economic development.
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