Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to plenary report

Added(by) strengthen and update the EU’s 2018 Integrated Approach to External Conflicts and Crises with special attention to conflict prevention and resolution that combines human rights promotion and protection, humanitarian, development, peacebuilding and security assistance, sanctions and diplomatic engagement, fully addressing all aspects of the conflict, including in partnership with local and international partners;

Added(bz) stress the need to establish a European Civil Peace Corps that brings together the expertise of institutional and non-institutional actors on conflict prevention, peaceful conflict resolution and reconciliation, with a view to making EU civilian crisis management more credible, coherent, effective, flexible and visible;

Added(ca) consider the use, notwithstanding the political dimension and solutions to conflicts, of litigation through an international court or tribunal, such as the International Criminal Court or the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, as a method of preventive diplomacy;

Added(cb) step up its public diplomacy and visibility efforts and communication campaigns in order to ensure that the EU is seen as a global peace actor and a key stakeholder in preventive diplomacy and peacebuilding, including the prevention of conflicts dimension of its missions and operations, and that its actions and success stories are not undermined by false narratives spread or claimed by other global actors present in conflict regions; allocate the necessary resources to the EEAS, and particularly the Strategic Communication and Foresight division of the EEAS and EU delegations to ensure the inclusivity and coherence of their cooperation activities with partner countries;

Added(cc) continue to professionalise preventive diplomacy by ensuring that it is part of the training programme of the permanent structure of Parliament’s pilot project on the creation of the European Diplomatic Academy;

Added(cd) build on existing well-functioning cooperation mechanisms in the EU, such as the Civil Protection Mechanism and CSDP missions and operations, in order to make use of the Member States’ expertise and avoid the duplication of efforts and resources; believe that the Member States should be more involved in the identification of prevention priorities and options for action, which should lead to improved sharing and coordination among them;

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2. Instructs its President to forward this recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.