Ministry of Home Affairs: 20 Years of International Missions

This paper traces twenty years (1995-2015) of the Portuguese Ministry of Home Affairs’ contribution to peacekeeping and civilian missions, including CSDP civilian missions. Besides the informative aspect of that report, it can serve as an example of strategic communication and valorisation of civilian forces’ participation in international missions.

The report presents a statistical and historical perspective, but also “the institutional strategy that allowed the engagement in the most varied scenarios and the vision of those who lived the missions in the first person”. These testimonies also outline challenges encountered in missions.

Reference: Crespo M., Lopes, S., Raminhos L., Rocha, S. (2017). Ministry of Home Affairs: 20 Years of International Missions. Ministry of Home Affairs, International Relations Department, Lisbon. 

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