Background documents

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As an introduction to the Dublin conference topics, the ECCP compiled a Working Document, which provides for the background papers for the topical working group sessions, as well as some background information on the Panel debate discussions and an update on the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, including the regional processes.

Click here to download the Working Document

Some of the background papers enclosed in the Working Document are actually summaries of larger documents. The full documents are available here.

Other documents:

• Development & Peacebuilding Working Group paper, by International Alert

• Civil Societies and Peacebuilding – the new Fifth Estate?, by Mari Fitzduff, professor and director of the Coexistence and Conflict Master’s program at Brandeis University.

• Links for life. Opportunities for more effective civil society engagement with the UN system, by John W. Foster, The North-South Institute (Ottawa, Canada)

• Feasibility Study on the European Civil Peace Corps (ECPC) for DG Research, European Parliament. Principal author: Catriona Gourlay (Executive Director, International Security Information Service, Europe)

• Strengthening global security through addressing the root causes of conflict: Priorities for the Irish and Dutch EU Presidencies in 2004

• Development Relief: the European Perspective. Prepared for the Transition Working Group InterAction, by Giulia Campanaro, Davidson Hepburn, Malgorzata Kowalska, Ann Wang