On 4–8 November Dr Jair van der Lijn (pictured, right) and Xenia Avezov of SIPRI's Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme attended the fourth set of regional dialogue meetings conducted as part of the New Geopolitics of Peace Operations: A Dialogue with Emerging Powers project.
Earlier this month Dr Jair van der Lijn and Xenia Avezov of SIPRI's Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme delivered the final two regional dialogue meetings of the New Geopolitics of Peace Operations initiative in Brussels and Hanoi.
On 18 February 2015 the findings of the final report from SIPRI’s New Geopolitics of Peace Operations Initiative were launched at an event at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
Researching peace operations in a multipolar world remains a challenge. Some argue that the shift of influence from established to emerging powers runs the risk of destabilizing international conflict management.
Dr Jaïr van der Lijn and Xenia Avezov of SIPRI's Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme attended the third regional dialogue meetings of the New Geopolitics of Peace Operations project, on 11–12 April in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
A new report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) identifies clarifying expectations, aligning resources and equitable burden sharing as key components of successful future peace operations. The report, to be launched today in New York City, aims to feed into a larger United Nations review of its peace operations.