Erosion of Multilateralism Threatens Global Peace Efforts Amid Political and Financial Cuts
SDG 16: Peace, Justice & Institutions | SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Institutions: Ministry of External Affairs
The SIPRI Research Policy Paper, Pursuing Peace on a Shoestring: Conflict Management in an Increasingly Complex World, analyzes how budget constraints, geopolitical fragmentation, and rising complexity are eroding the capacity of multilateral conflict management systems.
The report concludes that the world is facing heightened fragmentation, de-institutionalization, and militarization, which threatens the survival of the multilateral system and erodes value-based norms. A central challenge highlighted is the trend of decreasing political and financial investments in non-military tools such as peacebuilding and civilian peacekeeping. This reduction in support for holistic conflict management options is occurring at a time of increasing global complexity.
The paper maps these existing debates about the future of global conflict management, drawing on expert insights and literature to set the stage for a series of forthcoming regional meetings on the topic. The overall message is that peace efforts are being undercut by a lack of political will and financial commitment to non-military solutions.
The findings directly challenge the priorities of global security stakeholders by demonstrating that the current trend of defunding non-military interventions (peacebuilding and civilian peacekeeping) reduces the international communityβs effective options for holistic conflict management, making the system more reliant on costly and politically challenging military measures.
The findings also underline how middle powers like India may increasingly face expectations to assume regional crisis-management roles as global peacekeeping resources contract.
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Pursuing Peace on a Shoestring: Conflict Management in an Increasingly Complex World