How to improve peacekeeping missions in the future? Lessons learned from the EU’s peacekeeping missions in the G5 Sahel region

As a consequence of the rise of insecurity in the Sahel region, the G5 Sahel started to cooperate with the European Union in 2016 as it was in the interest of both to combat terrorism and drug trafficking, among other issues. The cooperation transformed itself into a multidimensional peacekeeping mission, setting a precedent on how a cooperation between civilian, military and other international peacekeeping missions can work together to improve the security situation not only of a country, but of a region.