Tags: Peace, Global economy, Politics, Power shifts, Norms and values, Organized crime, Resources, Migrations, New technologies, New media, Private security companies, Demographics, Climate change

Building on the contributions of an outstanding group of experts, practitioners but also non-insiders to peace operations, ZIF has applied modern scenario methodology to shed some light on these questions and “create” four scenarios upcoming discussions can built on. The first Challenges Forum Research Workshop, held in Berlin on 15–16 October 2012, provided a space to discuss these scenarios and to identify implications for peace-operations-related work today. In this report, the key recommendations of the working groups are presented in more detail.

The future is now.pdf