Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zürich

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The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich is a center of competence for Swiss and international security policy. It offers security policy expertise in research, teaching, and consulting activities. www.css.ethz.ch

Last Friday at the Biennial Forum for Peace Mediation, mediation researchers, policymakers, and practitioners discussed the challenges that peace mediation faces in today's global environment. The forum was organized by the Master of Advanced Studies ETH “Mediation in Peace Processes”.

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🌍Risks do not stop at national borders. The CSS and the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection visited the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission for a valuable exchange on risk analysis, risk assessment methodologies, and good practices across institutional contexts. 🤝

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@cbrandt.bsky.social and Jenniina Kotajoki's study of naming and shaming non-state armed groups finds that nearly half of all condemnations at the UN Security Council target them (rather than other states)—and states shame them for very different strategic reasons. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Naming and Shaming Nonstate Armed Groups at the United Nations Security Council | International Organization | Cambridge Core

Naming and Shaming Nonstate Armed Groups at the United Nations Security Council

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𝗖𝗦𝗦 𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀! ✈️ 20 May 2026 ⏲️ 10:30 - 12:00 (CEST) ⚡️ Webinar on Zoom (no account is required). Mandatory registration. The Web Talk is hosted by Jurgena Kamberaj, Senior Researcher at CSS. Register here: 👉 www.bi.id.ethz.ch/KontaktDB-We...

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🆕 Journal of Peace Research article by Nina Cadorin highlights a blind spot: coercive recruitment of adults. CROAD covers 390 rebel groups, tracking forced recruitment, conscription & pledges to stop. A new lens on how armed groups sustain themselves. 👉Read more: academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...

Introducing the Coercive Recruitment of Adults Dataset (CROAD), 1990–2021

Abstract. Armed groups rely on recruitment to sustain their organizations, yet most research on forced recruitment focuses on children. Far less attention

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«Die Übersättigung mit Drohnen in Frontnähe ist meines Erachtens mit ein Grund, wieso sich die Frontlinie in der Ukraine kaum bewegt.» CSS Researcher Ivo Capaul erläutert im Interview mit watson die besondere Rolle von Drohnen in der modernen Kriegsführung. 👉 www.watson.ch/internationa...

«Der Ukrainekrieg lässt sich an der Front kaum entscheiden»

Der Ukraine-Krieg wie auch jüngst der Iran-Krieg zeigen die immer wichtiger werdende Rolle von Drohnen in bewaffneten Konflikten.

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