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Despite relative progress in women’s participation in peace processes, very little is known about the experiences of women mediators and negotiators in Track One peace processes. To address this topic, women mediators and negotiators from a broad range of conflict contexts and peace processes were brought together for three workshops to explore the challenges they have faced and the strategies they have developed at the Track One level. This CSS Mediation Resources highlights their key findings.

For the first time, Switzerland is currently running for a seat as a non-​permanent member of the UN Security Council (SC). The aim of this CSS Study by Fabien Merz is to shed light on experiences and best practices made in other countries with regard to the role and tasks of defense ministries (DM) and army headquarters (HQ) in the context of a SC membership. For this purpose, interviews were conducted with representatives of the DM and HQ from Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Ireland and Norway.

The ongoing robotization of armed forces raises concerns about the desirability of autonomous systems with lethal capacity. In contrast, unarmed military robots have already improved and supplied capabilities unconstrained by human physical limitations. But despite the long-term efforts to develop fully autonomous systems, no military robot can lift the fog of war, argues Dominika Kunertova in this CSS Analysis.

Two European consortia, FCAS and Tempest, have recently set out to develop and manufacture 6th-generation fighter jets. Both projects are motivated by the same basic rationale: regaining European autonomy in a strategic technology cluster. However, they differ not only in their approaches and ambition levels towards this end, but also in key military and politico-industrial parameters, argue Amos Dossi and Niklas Masuhr in this CSS Analysis.

This CSS Risk and Resilience Report by Kevin Kohler reviews methods in strategic foresight that can help organizations to deal with and reduce uncertainty. The report uses examples from the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) domains and discusses some caveats, such as information hazards that are particularly relevant to this context. The overview it provides can be useful across a wide range of strategic decision-making processes.