The EU, Regional Integration and Conflict Resolution

The mid-term workshop in Rome hosted by the Institute Affari Internationali (IAI) was aimed at providing the project team with a primary feedback on the results and the outputs of their fieldwork. On the one hand, five regional panels were set up for researchers to present and discuss their first findings on the EU`s approach towards regional integration and the transformation of regional conflicts from their local viewpoint (European, African, Mediterranean, Latin American and Asian). On the other, practitioners and academic experts of the regions were invited to act as discussants and deliver specific comments to the presentations. The last session allowed project partners to point out any research related challenges, discuss possible solutions and examine the future development of the project such as publications strategies and other organisational matters.