By Emma Bjertén-Günther and Yeonju Jung Major misconceptions continue to weaken efforts to make gender-sensitive peace mediation a reality. Here are six persisting myths standing in the way of...
The impacts of climate change are increasingly viewed as global security risks, which will have far-reaching implications for both human and renewable natural systems. Most climate–conflict research...
Florian Krampe, Roberta Scassa and Giovanni Mitrotta The transnational character of climate-related security risks often goes beyond the capacity of national governments to respond adequately. As...
Today the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union (EU) will adopt a number of decisions on the Sahel and Mali. In light of these conclusions, SIPRI has published a topical backgrounder on the...
Timo Smit This year it is 70 years since the United Nations Security Council established the first UN peacekeeping operation. On 29 May 1948 it authorized the deployment of military observers to...
ABOUT SIPRI’S MULTILATERAL PEACE OPERATIONS DATABASE The SIPRI Multilateral Peace Operations Database is a unique source of transparent and reliable data on all multilateral peace operations...
THE SIPRI YEARBOOK SIPRI Yearbook 2018 presents a combination of original data in areas such as world military expenditure, international arms transfers, arms production, nuclear forces, armed...
Civilians were majority of casualties from anti-vehicle mines in 2017 The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute...
SIPRI, in cooperation with the European Union delegation in Mali, assembled representatives from two regions of central Mali (Mopti and Segou) to map security concerns and discuss ways to improve the...
**Global military spending remains high at $1.7 trillion, new SIPRI data ** (Stockholm, 2 May 2018) Total world military expenditure rose to $1739 billion in 2017, a marginal increase of 1.1 per cent...