CURRENT RESEARCH

The Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies is engaged in research on a variety of issues, as both in-house and commissioned work.

Following is a brief list of some of our present research categories:

- Peace support operations and the future role of the UN Peacebuilding Commission
- The agenda of human security
- The economic dimensions of mediating peace agreements
- Urban armed violence
- Security and development
- State responsibility and interventions for humanitarian purposes
- Changing notions of sovereignty
- State-building and the problem of fragile states
- The disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of ex- combatants