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FBA at the Almedalen Week 2018
During this year’s Almedalen Week in Visby, Sweden, the FBA will organize a series of seminars in the area of peace, security and development.
2018-06-19 17:44Read our publications
Una perspectiva de género en la construcción de la paz
This training manual has been developed to provide an introduction in Spanish to the policy framework on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) and its follow-up resolutions on women, peace and security.
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Conflict resources and the rule of law
Over 40 per cent of all intrastate conflicts have a link to natural resources and, while it is not new evidence as such, less than a quarter of peace negotiations actually aim to resolve conflicts by addressing resource management mechanisms. By the same token, links to natural resources are rarely included in the design of peacekeeping operations or even conflict analysis to start with.
The risks for relapse are furthermore twice as high for conflicts associated with ... Read entire post »
2018-05-18 14:04 -
Challenges Forum: A platform for improving peace operations
Recently I joined the team at the International Secretariat of the Challenges Forum, or to give its full name: The International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations. Challenges Forum, CF for short, is a global partnership of 49 leading organizations and departments working on peace operations, representing 22 countries from across all regions of the global North and South.
Established in 1996, the aim of CF is to improve peace operations by identifying the critical challenges ... Read entire post »
2018-05-03 09:11 -
Time for the Vikings to set sail again
In just about a week, the Viking-18 exercise will start. In rough figures, around 3000 people (out of which some 300 are civilians), of 60+ nationalities, will meet across nine international sites to do a multinational, joint and civil-military exercise. It is the grand finale of almost two years of hard work by a dedicated group of individuals from many nations and organizations, including FBA, which has the role of facilitating and coordinating the civilian strands ... Read entire post »
2018-04-10 14:25
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Stefan Åström is expert on Latin America and disarmament of ex-combatants
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