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    List of Publishers on Civilian Crisis Management
    This list comprises a variety of institutions publishing research on or relevant to civilian CSDP. These include research articles from academia including several academic journals, some of which will be behind a paywall while some articles will be open-access. There are also several think tanks publishing reports, analysis, and policy recommendations and which frequently write about civilian CSDP and connected topics. Resources specifically covering WPS are included, though the topic may be discussed in the other sources as well.
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    • Human Rights
    • Hybrid Threats
    • Strategic Communication
    01 August 2025

    Resilience and Future Literacy for Improved Crisis Management
    This report developed by the Resilience League provides a roadmap of theory and practice for the reintegration of Ukrainian territory following the end of Russian occupation, with a focus on hybrid threats and societal resilience.
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    • Civilian CSDP Missions
    • CSDP Partnerships, Partner Countries and Third States
    01 September 2024

    The Multistakeholder Initiative Approach to European Crisis Management: Civilian CSDP and Engagement with Local Non-state Actors
    This research article published by a Ph.D. Fellow at the European Security and Defence College examines EUCAP Somalia's practices in cooperation with Non-state actors (NSAs). It finds that current engagement is effective but too informal and insufficient, and encourages development of an official strategy for engagement, formalisation of outreach, and improving communication channels.
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    • Assessments
    • Knowledge Management
    07 February 2024

    Crisis and Transformative Learning in Communities of Practice: Semi-Formal Learning in CSDP during COVID-19
    This research article discusses how COVID-19 temporarily created a radical change in the lessons learnt process of CSDP. Using the theoretical framework of Communities of Practice (CoPs), in this case the agencies, EEAS directorates, missions, and other workplace communities and venues for interaction within the CSDP architecture, the researchers find that the pandemic decreased the political contestation between CoPs and created a high-engagement environment where lessons were freely shared among CoPs as they were learned, with PCM (then-ISP) as the knowledge broker.
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    • Career Path Development
    • Civilian CSDP Missions
    26 June 2023

    Implementing CSDP Missions: The Daily Travails of Police Experts
    Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews with European police officers deployed to CSDP missions, this article examines mission members' perspectives on key challenges frequently discussed at headquarters, namely bureaucratic obstacles and staffing issues.
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    • Assessments
    01 February 2022

    EU Missions and Operations: Practices of Learning Lessons in the CSDP
    This book chapter outlines the effect of the historically complex organisational structure of the lessons learned processes of CSDP. Practices of knowledge management as well as these processes are analysed with a particular focus on their development over time, from the absence of formalised processes to the creation of multiple ones, leading to the recent attempt to standardise them.
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    • EU Institutional Structure
    02 November 2021

    The EU’s Integrated Approach to Crisis Response: Learning from the UN, NATO and OSCE
    This empirical analysis critiques the EU Integrated Approach to External Conflicts and Crises, a strategic concept meant to coordinate the various civilian and military actors for enhanced effectiveness in crisis management. The authors empirically analyse the EU Integrated Approach with some comparison to the other organisations, and draw out four problems: difficulties in multilateral coordination; too much focus on EU institutions, thus undermining local ownership; insufficient conflict sensitivity; and excessive focus on migration control at the expense of other values and interests.
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