EFSPS - Experts - Nicoletta Pirozzi

Project

EU civilian crisis management: enhancing training, recruitment and deployment standards

This study starts out from the recognition of the emergence of a new security environment and the necessity for international actors to be adequately equipped to respond to complex challenges and threats. New crises require a comprehensive external approach, which is based on a constructive civilian engagement in the entire conflict management cycle, from prevention to de-escalation and peacebuilding. The EU has great ambitions in the field of civilian crisis management and significant progress has been made since the 2000 Feira European Council. However, the efficiency of its decision-making process is still hampered by the structural lack of internal co-ordination and its civilian capabilities remain critically underdeveloped, particularly in comparison with their military counterparts. Taking into account the future scenarios for EU crisis management operations and activities, this project will assess how civilian personnel might best be trained, recruited and deployed in order to effectively perform crisis management tasks within a more efficient and coherent EU framework for civilian crisis management.

Expertise

Publications

2008

• Pirozzi, Nicoletta / Sandawi, Sammi: Five years of ESDP in action: operations, trends, shortfalls, European Security Review, No. 39, July 2008
• Marta, Lucia / Pirozzi, Nicoletta / Ronzitti, Natalino: Le missioni italiane all’estero: Afghanistan e Libano, L'Italia e la politica internazionale. Edizione 2008, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008
• Pirozzi, Nicoletta: (ed. by), Strengthening the UN security system: the role of Italy and the EU, Roma, Istituto affari internazionali, 2008 (IAI Quaderni. English series 11)
• Pirozzi, Nicoletta / Niglia, Federico: Il G8: un forum di governance mondiale?, Roma, Senato della Repubblica, 2008 (Contributi di Istituti di ricerca specializzati 93)
• Salleo, Ferdinando / Pirozzi, Nicoletta: Italy and the United Nations Security Council, The International Spectator, Vol. 43., No. 2, April-June 2008

2007

• Comelli, Michele / Pirozzi, Nicoletta: La cooperazione tra l'Unione europea e la Nato [=EU-NATO Cooperation], in: Contributi di Istituti di ricerca specializzati No. 69, Rome, International Affairs Office of the Senate of the Italian Republic, May 2007, http://www.senato.it/documenti/repository/lavori/affariinternazionali/approfondimenti/69%20per%20sito.pdf

2006

• Pirozzi, Nicoletta: UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon: Europe’s Contribution, European Security Review, n. 30, October 2006
• Pirozzi, Nicoletta / Helly, Damien: The EU’s Changing Role in Kosovo: what next?, European Security Review, n. 29, June 2006
• Pirozzi, Nicoletta: The new EU engagement for the maintenance of security in the Middle East: Border Assistance and Police Reform in the Palestinian territories, European Security Review, n. 28, February 2006
• Quille, Gerrard / Gasparini, Giovanni / Pirozzi, Nicoletta: Developing EU Civil Military Co-ordination: the role of the new Civilian Military Cell, Joint ISIS-CeMiSS Report, June 2006

2005

• Pirozzi, Nicoletta / Helly, Damien: Aceh Monitoring Mission: a new challenge for ESDP, European Security Review, n.27, October 2005

CV

Nicoletta Pirozzi is research fellow in the European Affairs area at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) - Rome, working on EU conflict prevention and crisis management, policy and institutional developments in CFSP/ESDP and EU-UN relations. She is also research fellow in the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Programme, where she carries out a research project on 'EU civilian crisis management: how to improve training, recruitment and deployment standards'.

Previously she was Project Officer responsible for the Responding to Conflict programme area at the International Security Information Service (ISIS) Europe - Brussels. She also worked in the Coordination Unit for the Political and Security Committee at the Italian Permanent Representation to the EU and in the General Secretariat of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Nicoletta Pirozzi graduated with honours in Political Science at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna in Pisa. She also obtained a MSc Degree in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium).

Other Information

Selected conference papers and lectures:

• 17/04/08: Converging and Diverging Approaches to Peace and Security in Africa, Seminar on “Common Interests – Common Action? Strategies and Initiatives of the European Union and China towards Africa”, DGAP, Berlin;

• 01/02/08: Five Years of ESDP-Operations: Experiences, Tendencies and Lessons Learned, Seminar on “ESDP under Review: Achievements and Future Challenges”, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin;

• 30/11/07: Italy at the UN Security Council, Seminar on “The contribution of Italy and the European Union to the collective security system of the United Nations”, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome;

• 4/10/07: The EU within the UN: conceptual basics and problems, Seminar on “The EU as a Global Actor in the UN Reform Process”, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin;

• 14/05/07: The Constitutional Treaty and ESDP, Seminar on “Giornate per l’Europa”, Università di Roma Tre, Rome;

• 19/09/06: Presentation of the report “Developing EU Civil Military Co-ordination: the role of the new Civilian-Military Cell”, European Parliament, Brussels;

• 26/04/06: Analysis of the Feasibility Study for a European Civil Peace Corps, Informal meeting on the European civil Peace Corps, European Parliament, Brussels.

Training activities:

• 01/08-04/08: The United Nations Model (Rome, Italy – New York, US) - Educational and vocational training for university students on the United Nations system, aimed at preparing simulations on working sessions of the General Assembly, the Security Council, the ECOSOC and of the other Commissions at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

• 09/06-ongoing: EC Project on Training for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management - Participation in the meetings and activities of the European Group on Training.

• 09/07-12/07: European Security and Defence College (Brussels, Belgium) - Participation in the meetings and activities of the Steering Committee and Executive Academic Board as training advisor of the Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa (CASD).

• 05/07: Civil-military Co-ordination Course - Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa (Rome, Italy) - Teaching activity for civilian and military personnel on EU and UN civil-military co-ordination.

• 06/07: ESDP Induction Course - Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa (Rome, Italy) - Teaching activity for military personnel on EU crisis management.

• 10/06: EU-UN Training Course on Human Rights - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy) - Tutor of an intensive two-week training course on Human Rights organised by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights in the framework of the EC Project for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management.

• 06/05 : European Parliament - Training Seminar on Electoral Observation (Brussels, Belgium)