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Peace and security

Organization:

  • Responsible(s) Federal Science Policy: Van doninck Bogdan
  • Final decision of the Ministers Council: 18/12/1991
  • Duration of the research: 1/3/1992 - 30/9/1994
  • Budget: 619,733.81 EUR
  • Research projects: 11

Objectives:

1. To explore, on the basis of research projects, the field related to the analysis and control of international conflicts and the role that Belgian scientific research can play in this respect;

2. to apply the research potential currently available in Belgium to the analysis and assessment of research in the field of international conflicts, to study how this research can contribute to political choices and examine the role of data bases, existing or to be created;

3. to stimulate collaboration between institutions and associations that are already active in this area, with a view to future collaboration in the framework of the future Institute for the Study of Peace and Security.

Description:

The objectives will be reached through a set of eleven research projects, each spanning about one year, and through the publication of the final reports of these projects.

Research projects:

VP/01: Mapping the Belgian information and research potential in the field of international affairs, especially international conflicts

VP/02: Analysis and assessment of scientific research on international conflicts and on specialised foreign data bases

VP/03: Bibliographic, methodological, comparative, and historical examination of post-war international conflicts

VP/04: Study on the software and equipment required for a data base to be created and for the comparative assessment of existing data bases

VP/05: Controlling ethnic and nationalistic conflicts in Central and Eastern Europe in the light of the political and economic changes in the region : comparative study with a view to developing preventive diplomacy

VP/06: Nuclear proliferation and the new world order : the future of non-proliferation

VP/07: Description, analysis, and future scenarios of intra- and inter-state conflicts in Black Africa

VP/08: Security and cooperation in a Euro-African context

VP/09: Origins and current applications of the notions "joint security" and "joint defense"

VP/10: Peace and security in the Mediterranean : what role for Europe ?

VP/11: Advantages for the civilian sector of military know-how

Documentation:

Belgisch informatie- en onderzoekpotentieel inzake internationale conflicten: in kaart brengen van het informatie- en onderzoekpotentieel van België m.b.t. de internationale politiek, in het bijzonder de internationale conflicten De Keersmaeker, Goedele  DWTC, 1994 (SP0362)
[Exhausted] 

Les conflits armés de 1945 à nos jours Miroir, André - Remacle, Eric - Paye, Olivier  SSTC, 1995 (SP0363)
[Exhausted] 

Etude de faisabilité d'une banque de données "Paix et sécurité": étude du logiciel et du matériel requis pour une banque de données à créer et l'évaluation des banques de données existantes dans le domaine "Paix et sécurité" Adam, Bernard - Figa, Dominique - Denis, Pierre ... et al.  SSTC, 1994 (SP0364)
[Exhausted] 

Bescherming van minderheden in centraal- en Oost-Europa: juridische bescherming van minderheden in de post-communistischelanden van Centraal- en Oost-Europa: een vergelijkende studie met het oog op de uitwerking van een meer effectieve preventieve diplomatie Hardeman, H. - Malfliet, K. - Jackson, M.  DWTC, 1994 (SP0365)
[Exhausted] 

Nucleaire proliferatie in de derde wereld: motieven, capaciteiten en mogelijke consequenties Vanhees, Benoit - Geeraerts, G. - Niezing, J.  DWTC, 1995 (SP0366)
[Exhausted] 

Conflicten in Sub-Sahara-Afrika een zoektocht naar verklaringen: twee gevalstudies: conflictoorzaken en mogelijke conflictoplossingen in Ruanda en Burundi, 1988-1993 Dupont, Patrick - Marijsse, S. - Reyntjens, F.  DWTC, 1994 (SP0367)
[Exhausted] 

Vrede en veiligheid in Zwart Afrika Doom, R. - Walraet, A. - Onghena, H.  DWTC,1994 (SP0368)
[Exhausted] 

Etude comparée des notions de défense collective et de sécurité collective Colson, Bruno - Franck, Christian - Türsan, Huri  SSTC, 1995 (SP0369)
[Exhausted] 

Intérêts pour le secteur civil des compétences militaires Wautelet, Michel - Legrand, Philippe  SSTC, 1994 (SP0370)
[Exhausted]