CIAO DATE: 03/2011
January 2011
The Geneva Centre for Security Policy
On 13-14 December 2009 the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) co-hosted a workshop jointly with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington, DC, and the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada. The workshop was co-financed by the Swiss Government and the International Development Research Council, Ottawa. Entitled “Global Security and Regional Responses: Conflict Management in a Fractured World”, the workshop brought together leading experts, practitioners, and scholars in the fields of conflict management and regional security. The discussions touched upon the evolving global security environment of the 21 century, regional security challenges and security institutions, as well as strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in conflict management practices. Five regions were analysed in different roundtables: Asia, Central America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Transatlantic and Eurasian security complexes. This report reflects on the debates of the workshop and, to a degree, draws on GCSP’s own work on security regionalism as well as on draft chapters of a USIP forthcoming book on the same issues.
Resource link: Global Security and Regional Responses: Conflict Management in a Fractured World [PDF] - 305K