Nathalie Tocci is Director of the Area "EU and the Neighbourhood" at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy.

Explores the EU's relations with civil society organizations in an effort to improve the effectiveness and relevance of its conflict and peace policies.

1. The European Union, Civil Society and Conflict: An Analytical Framework Nathalie Tocci 2. The EU and Civil Society in the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict Nicu Popescu 3. Are Civil Society Organizations the Missing Link? Assessing EU Engagement in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Licínia Simão 4. The EU and Moldova's Civil Society: Partners in Solving the Transnistria Conflict? George Dura 5. Coming too Late? The EU's Mixed Approaches to Transforming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Through Civil Society Benoit Challand 6. The EU, Civil Society and Conflict Transformation in Western Sahara: The Failure of Disengagement Hakim Darbouche and Silvia Colombo 7. The EU, Civil Society and Conflict: A Comparative Analysis Nathalie Tocci and Nona Mikhelidze