Recent publications
Oliver Stuenkel (2012)
BRICS and the ‘Responsibility while Protecting’ Concept
The Hindu, 12 March 2012
Tim Maurer (2012)
Die Debatte um Urheberrechte im Netz ist erst der Anfang
Zeit Online, 11 February 2012
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, James Mayall, eds. (2012)
The New Protectorates: International Tutelage and the Making of Liberal States
C. Hurst Publishers (UK) / Columbia University Press (US)
Julia Steets, Claudia Meier (2011)
Evaluation of the Protection Standby Capacity (ProCap) and Gender Standby Capacity (GenCap) Projects
Evaluation report
Thorsten Benner (2011)
Ban Ki-moon's Second Term: The Bridge to Where?
Deutsche Welle, 30 December 2011
Thorsten Benner, Stephan Mergenthaler, Philipp Rotmann (2011)
The New World of UN Peace Operations: Learning to Build Peace?
Oxford University Press
Peace and Security
GPPi’s Peace and Security program focuses on the interaction of political and organizational dynamics in contemporary security governance. Our research on United Nations peace operations and the European Union’s crisis management missions zooms in on questions of organizational learning, strategy and leadership, the role of knowledge and the dilemmas of state building as a strategy of conflict transformation. We work on justice and security sector assistance and security sector reform (SSR, JSSR), including police reform and civilian oversight, as well as the politics within and between security bureaucracies and international organizations such as the UN, EU and NATO.
Further key issues of peace and security such as nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, energy security, conflicts in the Middle East and the future of Euro-Atlantic security institutions also feature prominently in GPPi’s programs on Rising Powers and Global Governance and Global Energy Governance. Issues of coordination also play an important role in our Humanitarian Assistance program.
Our research on peace and security has been generously supported by the German Foundation for Peace Research, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation, Compagnia di San Paolo and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, among others.
Current projects
March 2012 – June 2012
Evaluation of the Implementation of Guidance in UN Peacekeeping
The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations has contracted GPPi to lead an internal research team that is conducting an evaluation on the dissemination and implementation process that follows the adoption of new or updated guidance documents.
January 2012 – ongoing
Strategic Challenges for International Policy on Afghanistan
The German Federal Foreign Office has contracted GPPi to facilitate a workshop with government officials to develop strategic priorities in Afghanistan leading up to the 2012 G8/NATO summits and Tokyo donor conference.
May 2010 – April 2013
Strategic Management in Peace Operations
A research project that asks about the relationship between the institutional structure of interventions and their ability to strategically create and implement policy in post-conflict police reform at the examples of Afghanistan and Kosovo.
January 2012 – May 2013
Global Governance 2022
How should the system of global governance be designed in the year 2022 in order to effectively and legitimately tackle the most pressing global challenges in the decade ahead and beyond? This is the question that the 24 GG2022 fellows tackle using the methods provided by future research.
November 2003 – ongoing
Global Atlanticists
This program was created to support the creation of a transatlantic community of policymakers willing and able to work together on responses to global problems.
Completed projects
December 2010 – February 2012
Origins of Strategy for Justice and Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Focusing on how Germany, the United States, NATO and the EU make strategic choices about justice and security sector reform, this pilot study analyzes the interplay of politics and bureaucracy in complex foreign policy decisions.
August 2011 – January 2012
Evaluation of the ProCap and GenCap projects
For UN OCHA, GPPi is evaluating two projects meant to address civilian protection and gender issues during humanitarian emergencies.
February 2007 – January 2012
Learning to Build Peace? The United Nations, Peace Operations and Organizational Learning
Tracing the evolution of UN peacekeeping and its quest to remake itself into a learning organization, this multi-year academic study analyzes organizational learning in a complex international bureaucracy.
June 2011 – December 2011
Policy Advice and Support to the International Afghanistan Conference 2011
GPPi deployed an expert to assist the German Federal Foreign Office in policy development and negotiation analytical support for the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn 2011.
February 2007 - May 2011
Learning to Build Peace? Developing a Research Framework
The United Nations, transitional administration, strategic planning and organizational learning
January 2010 – January 2011
Global Governance 2020
The GG2020 program brings together young leaders from China, Germany and the US to develop scenarios for the future of international institutions.
July 2008 - December 2010
Learning in EU Peace Operations?
This research project analyzed organizational learning in EU civilian crisis management operations.
July 2010 – October 2010
Real-Time Evaluation of UNICEF’s Response to the Sa’ada Conflict in Northern Yemen
GPPi assessed the performance of UNICEF relief activities in Northern Yemen during the ongoing conflict.
February 2006 - October 2010
The New Protectorates
International administration and the dilemmas of governance
June 2008 – April 2010
'Brusselisation' and the Emergence of a Strategic Culture in the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)
With the 10th anniversary of the British-French St. Malo summit in December 2008 it is time to take stock on how...
December 2009 – February 2010
Opinion Pieces for the 2010 Munich Security Conference
Founded in 1962, the Munich Security Conference is one of the premier international events bringing together cabinet ministers, senior civilian and military officials, academics and journalists ...
September 2009 - December 2009
Sino-German Expert Workshop Series: EU-China cooperation in climate change mitigation and nuclear non-proliferation
Patterns of inter-bureaucratic networks
June 1999 – December 1999
Global Public Policy Case Studies
In 1999, the team for what was then the Global Public Policy Project commissioned case studies on new forms of collaboration between the public sector, civil society and business.