Abstract:

The European Union (EU) as global peacebuilding actor plays active role in conflict zones to prevent conflict onset, transform conflict structure, and building peace. The study explores the EU’s role as a conflict preventing and peace building actor in the Moldova-Transnistria conflict that erupted following the dissolution of the USSR. The EU follows liberal peacebuilding model that based on the state building presumptions. Examining European Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM) from liberal peacebuilding and the EU’s peacebuilding perspectives, the paper explores advantageous and disadvantageous to build sustainable peace in the conflict. The study shows that in order to transform the conflict the EU should increase involvement with the breakaway region to evolve its relations with Moldova and the EU and include the civil society from both sides in order to build confidence between two societies at the local level.

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