The purpose of this study is to find out why the EU has not yet implemented the EuropeanCivil Peace Corps (ECPC), which the EU Parliament took a resolution about in 1999. Themore specific questions posed are whether the concept of ECPC has been redefined, whetherthe issue of ECPC has been prevented from coming up for discussion and decision-making,and what this has meant for the non-implementation. Steven Lukes' theory about the threedimensions of power is used in combination with a discourse analysis method. The materialused is documents from the EU Parliament's decisions and debate about ECPC, and ECPCfeasibility studies. In the analysis I find one "law and order"-discourse and one "peaceknowledge"-discourse. The conclusions are that power strategies have been used to notimplement the ECPC while not openly resisting implementation, including preventing theissue from coming up for discussion and decision-making, and that the ECPC has beenredefined at several times in ways that have made implementation of the ECPC as originallyconceived of less likely.
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