In less than two decades, international conflict management has become a permanent feature of International Relations and consequently of the European Security policy. The main aim of the EU, as stated in its draft treaty, is peace. Thus conflict resolution permanently features as an objective of the European Union’s foreign policy. The extensive empirical involvement of international organizations in attempts at conflict management and prevention, which often see this as one of their main security tasks and the frequent calls to increase their involvement, as well as the simultaneous relative lack of systematic comparative research on their involvement in these situations constitute the starting point for this paper which deals with the EU’s conflict management policy and its effectiveness promoting peace and stability in Europe’s backyard and specifically in Georgia.