title: The EU’s Engagement in Conflict Resolution, Prevention and Mediation: A Framework
abstract: This working paper advances an analytical framework to study the European Union’s engagement in interconnected areas of conflict prevention, mediation and resolution. In so doing, it first explores the different theoretical understandings of conflict prevention, mediation and resolution, including what could and should pass as a case of ‘successful involvement’. Secondly, it conceptualises the EU’s ‘capacity to act’ across the spectrum of conflict and crisis management as both an ability to act 