Current Projects

MultiPart

MultiPart is a research project that aims at investigating whether, how, and under what conditions multi-stakeholder partnerships can positively impact on human security and facilitate non-violence and long-term peace, while providing a productive framework for relations between local actors and external actors, including third party mediators and international organisations.

MultiPart wants to explore opportunities to directly impact on partnerships that are evolving in post-conflict societies and, by translating its findings into policy recommendations, to contribute to enhancing the role of the EU in conflict prevention and resolution as well as in fostering the rule of law.

The project will base its empirical investigation on three case studies of core political interest to the EU today: Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Afghanistan.

Research Objectives

· General objective

The research will investigate how, to what extent, and under what conditions multi-stakeholder partnerships can contribute, if at all, to post-conflict reconstruction policies and programs that positively impact on human security.

· Specific objectives

• Elaboration of the theoretical framework of multi-stakeholder partnership, i.e. elaboration and finalization of the research questions that will guide the core research.
• Core research, i.e. analysis (on the basis of the research questions elaborated at stage one) of multi-stakeholder partnership in four sectors: (a) security; (b) economic and social development; (c) democracy, good governance and rule of law; (d) confidence building – crossed with the analysis of multi-stakeholder partnership in three core case studies – Kosovo; Democratic Republic of Congo; Afghanistan.
• Integration of the empirical findings, definition of policy recommendations and conclusions.