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    • Strategic Context of Civilian CSDP

    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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    • Evaluation
    • Knowledge Management

    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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    • Evaluation

    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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    • Strategic Context of Civilian CSDP

    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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